Oops

I forgot to take a blip picture. I took a picture of some little trees, including one that I think is dying, with the heat dome delivering the final blow. This little cutie looks fine. 

I took pictures of the checks I sent to the research associate and communications associate going into the mailbox. 

The day began sad (because we’re being fired tomorrow) but the work on the business cheered me right up. Someone I haven’t spoke to in years told me she’d always - she hoped I wasn’t offended - seen me as a hustler. Times like these require hustle. 

We have to hole punch our diplomatic passports. I have a friend who has a hole puncher I can borrow. 

Thank goodness for this business. Thank goodness. I hate even the thought of what I would be going through emotionally without the business. 

The Dir of Comms took what I’d prepared and made the most gorgeous, inspirational, beautiful text out of it. 

We have to hole punch our diplomatic passports. I have a friend who has a hole puncher I can borrow. 

Russia is so short of soldiers that they have begun snatching men on the street in Dagestan like they were ICE in the US. In Dagestan the population is viewed as expendable. This information is all from ATESH, the partisan group. 

Russia has lost so many people, so many tanks, so many other vehicles, … how long before the madness ends? 

North Korea sent Russia 11,000 soldiers. Over half are believed to be dead. The unrest in North Korea is so unusual and so bad that they are offering bereaved families permission to relocate to the capital and jobs building a war memorial. 

Ukraine attacked Russia’s S-400 Triumf, considered to be one of the world’s most advanced air-defense systems. Five drones hit it. Two drones hit its radar. Two more drones hit another one of its radars. If they were both destroyed, Russia is newly vulnerable in Crimea. 

Ukraine has received about $1.7 billion from Canada secured by proceeds from frozen Russian assets.