Leave the gap. Ink will not make Tuesday exist.
When a usage series skips a day, we keep the skip on the plate. Filling it from a neighbouring count has ruined more sittings than silence has.
Notes from the reading table
Journal
Short notes from work on configuration records and usage plates. They are written after sittings, not as slogans before them.
What to put in the envelope besides the counts
A usable sample for a configuration reading is smaller than people think: a few days of the actual trail, the name of the family, and who touches the arrangement.
A drop after a change is not proof the change caused the drop
Usage often falls in the same week a configuration is altered. The plate can show both facts. It cannot honestly join them with a single stroke.
Why the plate is paper when the counts began as a file
We draw on stock we can hold up in a room. A glowing grid in a meeting tends to be argued with; a plate tends to be pointed at.
A week on Gorgasali Street, from the logging book
Monday’s envelope, Wednesday’s refused plate, Friday’s sitting that ran into the evening because a blank Tuesday needed explaining.