Cat hair on your work pants after 3 weeks is annoying but let's be real, that's not exactly a crisis. A $60 couch that fits the room better than the old futon sounds like a win to me, even with the fur situation. Vacuum it a couple times and throw a blanket over it, problem mostly solved. The bigger issue is Marcus acting like he owns the thing after you drove to Fresno and paid for it, that part would bug me way more than some cat hair.

Read each page once with a pen and dog-ear the good ones as you go, then type only those later.

Watching your nephews sounds great, but I don't buy that couch co-op ever really went away, at least not for kids who live under the same roof. My neighbor's two girls play Mario Kart and Minecraft together on one TV almost every day, mostly because they're in the same house and sharing a screen is just easier than buying two of everything. What actually faded was split screen for grownups who moved apart, since online play made way more sense once your friends weren't on your couch anymore. The games never left, the setup just changed with who's around to play.