A Well-Run Bay (Grain Series)

I do eleven holds on this rotation and Vane is the one I look forward to, which is not a thing I would put in a packet. They feed you. That is most of it. But they also have a bay that works, and after four holds where the mass officer is a man on rotation from somewhere else who last touched a plate two terms ago, a bay that works is a kind of holiday. I had the determination on Bes and I had two ordinary compliance items and I had a window that was tight the way they are always tight, and I told my own people I would be four shifts and I meant it. The provision on remains of contracted personnel is short and I have it by heart. Remains are returned for determination on the first available window. There is a deferral clause underneath it, for over-allowance, and in nine terms I have never once had cause to use it, because a body is not large and an allowance is not that tight. I gave my designation at the lock and the woman there, Doiv, heard the back half of it and called me…