Everyone here threw a great long line of sixes when they were born, and thus ended up human, of substantially above-average intelligence, viable, in the first world and in a time of comparative peace, prosperity and liberty. No doubt the skunk-plutocrats of Planet Zog are watching us through telescopes from their vibro-massage chairs and laughing at our plight, but still things could be a lot worse.

Since then, I reckon I've rolled a fairly even distribution, but maybe there's a better analogy with poker than die-rolling games: if everyone has the same luck, the knack is to reliably distinguish the good luck from the bad, capitalise on the good, mitigate the bad, and especially exploit the fact other people can't tell how lucky you're being at any given moment. You can watch two different poker players dealt the same cards and come away with substantially different impressions of how lucky they've been; thus it is in life, also.

I think I can play my cards better than most; that's probably another important six I rolled a long, long time ago.