April/Ostarmânôd 1, 2019 Manostag

(Ostarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: wifey, work 8hrs.
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)], Beth Ann Reimer/Hinkle [(sister) (1956-2018)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963)
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; complications from M.S.
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; heart attack.
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Ansuz: In favor of the gods, Wodan specifically, the Divine Father, Wodanic wisdom, Divine communication, the Athem - Divine/vital breath, the force of creation, taking inventory of one’s Tru Spirit and spiritual balance, a higher source of inspiration, communication skills and divine ancestry, higher consciousness, mental stability, self-discipline, the loving/bright/compassionate Alle-Vater, spiritual balance.
Conversely:
Outside the favor of Alle-Vater Wodan vital/divine breath and the ancestral/Wodanic wisdom/Divine communication, separation from one’s true Spirit, spiritual imbalance, spiritual shunning, neurotic compulsive liar, exercise caution with communication and dealings including intelligence; a lack of inspiration, tough-love Fathering, the absent All-Father, the shadow/dark/mysterious side of Alle-Vater Wodan.
*A1R4
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Is:  
Havamal 154:
A ninth one I sing, when dangers at sea forces me
To protect my ship from the stormy waves;
The storm I calm down, no matter how billowing the sea,
And I cradle the waves to sleep.
 
Calm in the face of distress, comfort, hypnotic power of the forceful will, course of affairs, Rest, Ego, das Ich, Positivity, activity, personal will, self-domination, self-control, confidence, determination, extension of the Divine center, the upright human being, the awakened Self, influence, personal power, magical power, power to banish evil, unity in the Universe, duration, action in the Cosmos, activity, will, self-domination, influence, personal power, self-discipline, unity in the Universe, duration, magical powers, axis/column/Irminsul of the world, action in the Cosmos, elimination of that which is unnecessary, calm.
“Win power over yourself and you will have power over everything in the spiritual and physical worlds that strive against you” (List, 56).
H2R3
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Interpretation: Divine communication (Ansuz) brings calm in the face of distress (Is).
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1st check on all fur-kids.
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Outcome: almost 9hrs. of sleep with only ONE post-sunrise wake?  WTF is it with that?
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Wifey conversation.
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Pizza leftover from last night’s Hammerstorm meeting + a banana for breakfast.
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On the phone with the local VA.  They said my metformin ꝶ is, for some reason, coming out of the Leavenworth VA facility.  I called the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA in Leavenworth on the cell.  They confirmed receiving the ꝶ, and that it has NOT yet been mailed.  So, like last week, I’m probably out of metformin all this week, too.
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Bank for me
Credit Union for wifey
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Toby and I out for a noon hour/early afternoon, well behaved, 30min walk.
*mildly cool, partly cloudy, SSW wind.
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Breakfast sandwich + potato coins + dill pickle spears for lunch.
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Well scheisse!  My computer at work would not connect to the internet.  Called it in.  Used 1st shift colleague’s computer.  Ran a few familiar orders. 
Ya know, I think this was the first time I have ever been totally pissed at my 1st shift colleague.  For some reason, he just couldn’t bring himself to pull his deep-draw form block out from tray A.  When I had to run the
-2s, I had to pull his deep-draw and reset the whole she-bang for shallow draw to run the -2s.  It took me quite a while to come up with anything workable.  My 1st shift colleague has always suggested that I leave the deep-draw stuff to him, to which I was glad to oblige.  Now that I had no choice, I reset the bag-press to shallow draw with the limited knowledge I had.  In as nice of a way as I could muster, in a text message, I made my 1st shift colleague aware of my displeasure.
*Ansuz/Is
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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2am nighty night.  I get to sleep with my wife tonight.
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​God/dess Meditation: (alternate Manostag) Nirdu, brother-husband, to Nirda, parents of the Wanâ; Ing-Frô and the Frouwa, beloved god of harbors and seas close to land; help us to remember the cargoes of wealth that float to our doors daily from the wonderful Universe in which we live. Though our misfortunes may rise and fall like the tides, the chance of prosperity, like the eternal sea brimming with fish, is still there. Like the salt-sea spray, awaken us to the possibilities that surround us, so that our nets may be cast wide and return full of life’s gifts. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, NIRDU, as we honor the Nirdu that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!