Yeah I had a similar thing with my old mountain bike. I replaced the shift cables after a year because everyone said to, but honestly the old ones were fine. I ended up using them as a makeshift tent guy line on a camping trip and they held up a tarp in a thunderstorm. Still shifted fine when I put them back on the bike.

Binge rushing is basically the quickest way to vibe check yourself right out of the experience lol. I did the exact same thing with Steins;Gate and had to restart from scratch because I kept missing all the subtle time travel clues. @lane.angela had the right idea with the one episode a day lunch break thing, that actually forces your brain to sit with what happened. It's wild how we treat our hobbies like homework sometimes, just trying to beat the checklist instead of feeling the story. Nothing worse than realizing you sat through a whole season on fast forward and can't even name the main character's motivation.

Nah I'm with diana on this one. I've camped plenty of times on ground that felt dry on top but was a mud pit underneath by morning. The hand press test works but you gotta push harder than you think, like really lean into it. I had a trip last spring where everything felt fine, no tarp, just me and my tent on some slightly damp dirt. Woke up at 3am with water pooling under my sleeping pad, had to dig a little trench around the tent with my boot in the dark. That tarp trick isn't about worst cases, it's about avoiding that exact mess.

Wait until fall like @emmam67 suggested, but don't expect much. Pruning in July during a heatwave basically stresses roses into shock, so digging them up now would just waste your time. Mulch them heavily, keep watering, and check for any green at the base around September.

The real game changer for me was how much easier it is to clean the crock compared to scraping salt residue out of mason jar threads (that drove me crazy).