Wait, over your skid plate? That's way deeper than I'd ever expect from a beginner trail.

12 year old Dell membrane keyboard I found at a flea market worked perfect with a cheap adapter too. PS/2 is pretty bulletproof compared to modern USB stuff, all it does is send key presses over two wires. I mean, you probably could have just plugged it into an old PC with a native port and skipped the adapter hunt entirely.

Jumped right into a glue trap myself a few years back, trying to fix a phone case with superglue. Ended up gluing my fingers together for an hour and had to soak them in nail polish remover. That's kind of the thing with superglue in life, it's great for small fixes but it goes wrong in a big way when you least expect it. Your story fits a pattern I've noticed where people use the strongest solution for a small problem and get wrecked. Like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, everything gets broken but the nut. Your brother's phone is a perfect example of that scaling issue, a little drop turned into a whole mess. Take this with a grain of salt, but maybe keep a bottle of acetone handy next time you want to do something "funny.

Spending that much on plastic trays feels like paying for a problem the game itself shouldn't have.

Read somewhere that yeast is actually alive and you can kill it with too much handling. Made me way more gentle with my dough.