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Day 1031

Black bolt bad luck

Dec 20, 2024
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This morning Russians are shooting ballistic missiles at Kyiv from Russia’s Bryansk and Voronezh oblasts. MiG 31s are also in the air and there might be a couple of Dagger (Kinzhal) missile launches.

Pause.

Thing is, you see, I’ve grown used to this. As part of the gleaming green bracelet of impossibly good luck that exists to counterbalance my black bolt of explosively bad luck (there seems to be no middle ground) I don’t know anyone who has been actually hit by one of these missiles directly. At this (dealing with it, preparing for it) I remain a total beginner.

I took the metro just to be safe.

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