Gray is gray, is it really worth 2 days?

Rebuilding shortcuts keeps your brain sharp and stops you getting lazy with tools you barely use anyway.

Three dives into switching to figure-eights and I already tripped over my own hose like a rookie on a pier. My old arm-wrap took maybe four minutes, this deck lay takes nine, and my tender thinks I'm prepping for a knitting circle. That said, the jacket on my last umbilical lasted eleven months instead of eight, so the supervisor might've been onto something. I still catch myself doing the arm wrap out of muscle memory when I'm tired, which usually ends with me swearing and redoing it. Slower and clumsier beats buying a new hose every season, I guess.