Man, three hours of shoulder work in that heat is no joke, hope you iced those arms after!

Wait, they callused over clean by fall? That blows my mind because I've seen stubs rot out in less than that. How big were the cuts, like diameter wise? Feels like that would matter a lot here.

Laughed way too hard at the rodeo image because my own cat did almost the same thing last year, except she dragged a whole power strip across the room like she caught a fish. I finally gave up on hiding cords and just ran them through a cheap cord cover thing stuck to the wall, which she ignores now because she can't grab them anymore. The plastic bin with a lid is honestly a solid move, and it also doubles as a place to shove all the junk you don't want guests to see. My setup still looks a little like a crime scene but at least nobody's losing a laptop over it. Sometimes the ugly fix is the one that actually works.