EXCELLENT!
Now that you are treading water, now comes the time to aim the scope skyward!
To help you out with navigating the night sky, in case you haven't already done so, a phone app like Sky Safari is a great resource. They have a free version and a couple of paid versions. The free version is great to get you started. It will list the brighter stars in the sky and this will help you to locate the alignment stars.
Be patient with yourself here. It can be tricky at first.
You don't need to have the mount aligned to get your first view through of the sky. You can use the direction control buttons to move the scope about to view "manually".
Just to get you started, before attempting an alignment, locate Jupiter and Saturn on the app, then locate them up in the sky, and then move the scope (with the direction control buttons) to either one of these. They are very bright which makes them easier to locate and identify as being planets because when focused they will not be just pinpoints of light.
The only other button to look for on the handset is the "motor speed" button. Press that button and then the one of the numerical buttons. The higher the number the faster the mount will move the scope. To get the scope first pointing to the planets use speed number 9 to get the scope quickly up, and then press motor speed and number 5 to fine tune the pointing and move the scope when the object moves from the field of view.
Oh, and use the 25mm eyepiece here!!! It will give you the lowest magnification of your eyepieces, and it will be plenty to get you started with the planets. With your 8SE it will give you 80X magnification. The shorter the focal length of the eyepiece the greater the magnification, and the smaller the field of view of the sky it will give you, which right now is like using a wee straw to look through to find stuff in the sky.
This will get the ball rolling for you. The Moon will be visible next week, and Mars is rising in the east at sunset right now. Jupiter and Saturn are perfect to get you going.
Once you have these two under your belt you will be a hell of a lot more familiar with the mount when it comes time to start an alignment process and exploit its capabilities more fully
Alex.