They call him jinxed.

I was just about to start soldering on all the diodes and....
My soldering iron decided to die on me.

At this point of "two steps forward, one step back" I just got to ask myself - How badly jinxed am I?
Seriously, does that even happen to people?

A replacement soldering iron has been ordered so now I'm waiting for that to arrive. :(

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