Yeah, I hear you. I did the same thing when I first found Bitcoin actually. I ended up just sitting there staring at the fucking thing try nonces and continuously failing. I even modified the mining program to output a message anytime it tried a value that came kind of close to working.... I realized I had started spending up to a fucking hour sitting there staring at something that probably wasn't ever going to happen. I proceeded to shut it off before I became addicted to gambling as well :P