I've been enjoying talking w my Dad this week about some of the extended 'sheltered' situations hes had in life, whether that was aboard ship for months or some of his particular tedious stakeout assignments which lasted weeks at a time. I remember the later. Where's Dad? Uh, on a detail in X, back in 3 weeks.
It's not a get off my lawn story hour but in his words 'it's all of that that makes this an easy, 'temp' (his word for an assignment). I should note OAM, part of those temps involved playing the old SI college football board game, later known as Bowl Bound, with his fellow agents on assignment.
The more things the change the more they stay the same.