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You've got lots of entusiasm and taking a sensible approach, we all have our "regret buys" sitting in the corner of shame covered in cobwebs so much advice comes from people not wanting newbies to make the same mistakes. I suffered a stroke few years back so can't use my cgem dx setup again yet, havent given up on it. One thing I did with mine was to keep the tripod assembled near the back door, rather than collapse it out of the way. when open my tripod has cross stays near the feet that lock down keeping the legs out as identical angles and gives stability to the tripod. I got a board with pegs underneath to sit nicely on these stays, Its cut to a sort of rounded triangular shape. This gives me a stable platform under the mount and importantly, off the ground where I could keep the battery pack to power the mount and accessories, and just to have general stuff out of the way. The shape means it doesn't protrude out from the tripod so I can walk around the tripod in the dark without banging my shins or tripping over cables in the dark. As you build your equipment in time you might want a similar addition to firmly fix cables and gear to.
Cabling might be the only issue you encounter with an EQ mount to point at the opposite side of the sky it does a sort of flip where your whole assembly turns way over, Bit of a pain for visual use. So any loose cabling attached to your camera or scope can easily get caught up on parts of the mount and pull on them or hamper the movement of the mount, plus anything hanging is upsetting the balance of the mount as it moves that'll effect your shots.
So take the time during the day to load the mount with your gear "ready to use" and slew it around to point to different parts of the sky and work out where you can permanently tie down cables and where you need slack for movement etc. You don't want to hook up your expensive camera via usb to a laptop sitting on an outside table get it to take a 3hour exposure then hive off to the pub and return to find the lapop got pulled off the table screen down onto the concrete and dragged across until it wedged under the tripod feet then as the mount slewit wound the cable around the camera until it ran out of length and the mount is making nasty clicky grinding noise.
I mostly photograph on tripod or vixen polarie these days and use cabled remote for my cameras, so I am safe with just loosely winding the excess around the camera body so the remote hangs loose against the camera where balance is rarely effected.
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