(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: GOTTA clean house
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Elder Rune: Berkana: The feminine, Frija, Alle-Mutter, maternal instincts, birth processes, rejuvenation, growth, compassion, nurturing, caregiver, maturation, mature wisdom, recuperation, purification, the birch tree, birth, becoming, life changes, life anew, now is the time, a fresh perspective, sanctuary, all forms of Mothering, Frija at her Most-Motherly, healing, bringing into being, life passages.
Conversely:
Problems with relating to the feminine, the maternal influence and the feminine mysteries, void of growth and caring, deceit, degradation, immaturity, deterioration, contamination, needlessly clinging, tough love Mothering, in need of Mothering, missing/ignoring a significant life passage.
*A3R2
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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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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: enjoy the day off
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Elder Rune: Ehwaz: Horse, the special, controlled relationship between a rider and a horse, absolute trust, taking control of relationships and with higher-powers, instinct, intuition, progress, working in tandem with another, toward a single goal, control of a situation, adaptability, two halves that make-up the whole, following one’s instincts, teamwork, trust, loyalty, partnership, cooperation.
Conversely:
The relationship of a horse and rider out of control, disharmony, quarrelsome tendencies, mistrust, betrayal, stranded, indecisiveness, false friends/unfriendliness, treachery, change and/or movement for the worse, loss, break-up of a relationship, disruption of relationships, reluctant to trust, friendless, blockage, treachery, indecision, an enemy comes to the gate.
*A3R3
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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: Ur:
Havamal 146.
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
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Interpretation: Control (Ehwaz) leads to awareness (Ur).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of good sleep with only one wake-up
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 256 (headed in the right direction)
Glucose: 120
BP:  134/80
Pulse: 80
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée; she still sick
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WTF?  All morning on the internet?  Damn…I did.
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Breakfast sandwich close to noon
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A load of laundry
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Toby and I out for a perfektly behaved, early afternoon, 30min walk.
*cool, sunny, high clouds, slight breeze.
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Took down Yule decorations
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A pork chop and spinach for a late lunch
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YMCA https://www.ymcawichita.org/locations/richard-devore-south-ymca
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Game of Thrones S2 Es3and4
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MASL http://www.maslsoccer.com/
Baltimore 4-3 Harrisburg
Milwaukee 11-5 Cedar Rapids
St. Louis v Kansas City
1st qtr. 6-1
2nd qtr. 1-4
3rd qtr. 1-3
4th qtr.  1-3
Final score: 9-11
FINALLY!  KANSAS CITY WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Two more pork chops with rice and peas.
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Another load of laundry
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Essie has been shadowing me all day.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Night
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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, YMCA, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com)
Frijastag/Frija’s Day/Friday (great grandparents) David D. Schmidt (1852-1924) and Elisabeth Zülke (apx1856-1932) 
David D. Schmidt
Birth 11 June 1852
Death 18 March 1924 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Married 22 February 1876
Elizabeth Zülke (1856-1932)
Birth 4 JAN 1856 in Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 19 JUN 1932 in Lehigh, Kansas
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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: Isa: Ice: dormancy: a calming, self-preservation, self-centeredness resulting in a lack of change, reflective influence, stilling effect: self-control: the concentrated self: ego, das Ich (the unified, whole, principle or force), the composite plurality of Ich, be still and gain control of the Self (in all its forms): grounding, a lowering of vibration levels, patience, frigidity, and the loss of momentum.
*A2R3
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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: Man: 
Havamal 159.
A fourteenth know I Volkrast, the dwarf,
Sings early at the gates of dawn,
To strengthen the Aesir, to empower the Alves,
But to myself, All-Father, to gain wisdom.
 
Strength, magical empowerment, acquisition of Divine wisdom, propagation of the human race, encompasses both the exoteric and the esoteric concepts of humanity, great gain, male mysteries/leadership, manly actions, pulling down the spiritual into material form, human/humanity, increase, masculinity, health, plenty, magic, spirit, truth, God-Man, male principle in Cosmos, birth, health, increase, maleness and man, Divine man, male principle in Cosmos, magic power, thaumaturgy, true self, the resurrected god, the upper part of the world tree, Irminsul, Rune of spiritual powers, of directing Manna powers; the sacred Rune of humankind encouraging us to be human.
“Be a man” (List, 61).
H3R3
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Interpretation: Calm (Isa) leads to great gain (Man).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of sleep, to wake-ups, and a final wake-up with two simultaneous hamstring cramps.
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Fruit smoothie
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What a great way to start my day.  I threw out some foods scraps out to the back yard.  Usually, squirrels will scramble away until I leave.  INSTEAD, this squirrel on top of the neighbor’s privacy headed right for the scraps.  I quickly went back inside and started eating it and headed back outside.  This squirrel looked right at me and didn’t budge.  It was hungry.  This squirrel took a piece of apple right out of my hand!!!!
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Breakfast from frozen
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Calls and messages into extended family who probably wouldn’t know about Beth’s situation.
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, late morning, 30min walk
*cool partly cloudy/high thin clouds, slight north breeze
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Essie for some supervised outside time
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No time for the YMCA again today.
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My recent purchases ordered and received:
Norse Gods https://grimfrost.com/products/norse-gods
Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/viking-poetry-for-heathen-rites-eirik-westcoat/1126702512
Warrior of the Storm https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25394440-warriors-of-the-storm
The Flame Bearer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28949218-the-flame-bearer
Spear Butt Cap https://www.museumreplicas.com/flat-ended-butt-cap
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Lunch from frozen
*yeah, it’s a lazy cooking day.
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Essie is so funny.  While Socks has been out and about protecting his Princedom, Essie has made herself at home in Socks’ house quite comfortably.  Of course, she WILL come back inside prior to me leaving for work.
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Call into Air Capital Veterinary to start work on a prescription Science Diet for Toby.  Toby’s been on his allergy medication for quite a while.  The steroids in it can eventually be harmful to him.
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Good 8hr shift at work.  All went smoothly.
*extended chat @ the dinner break with my niece about funeral plans for my Sisser when the time comes.  It seems she has everything under control.
*tears
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My swim shoes arrived https://www.cdn-outlet.com/photos/options/8125499-9603-1A-zoomin.jpg
*thanks for the idea, Ob-Meister
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MASL http://www.maslsoccer.com/
Cedar Rapids 5-11 Milwaukee
Turlock 2-8 San Diego
Tacoma 11-6 Ontario (Cali).
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Nighty-night
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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, Sisser, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Donarstag/Donar’s Day/Thursday (great, grandparents) Peter Reimer (1868-1937) and Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Peter Reimer (1868-1937)
Birth 17 July 1868 in, Kleefeld, Molotschna, Russia
Death 12 Jan 1937 in Kern County, California, United States
*Married 9 April 1893
Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Birth 13 Jan 1874 in, Alexanderwohl, Molotschna, Taurida, Russia
Death 20 Aug 1929 in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States
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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: Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don't rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1
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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: Tyr: 
Havamal 156.
A twelfth one I sing, when I see through the brush
The hanged one swinging from the hemp;
He climbs down from the trunk, must tell me his tale
When I carve the Runes right.
 
Rebirth, renewal, rising from the ashes, excitation, revelation, mysteries revealed, sacrifice, rebirth of the Sun god, fertility and/or destruction, generation, power, success, wisdom, duties fulfilled, art of concealment and hiding, rebirth into the light - life of the soul, the power to make situations turn completely around, spiritual understanding, the power of regeneration, warrior strength, justice, balance, personal sacrifice of the father, resurrection/reincarnation/born again; “Do not fear anything, even dying cannot kill you.  Better to die than to be dead alive” (Gorsleben).
“Fear not death - it cannot kill you (List, 58).
H2R6
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Interpretation: Evolution (Hagalaz) leads to rebirth).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7 ½ hours of sleep with only two wake-ups…better
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1 egg with cheese, 4 slices of turkey bacon, steamed apples
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Chat with my love my fiancée; she’s really sick today
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Sister’s condition is much worse than I could’ve ever imagined.  There was no way I could’ve prepared for what I saw.  There’s no life in her eyes.  It really is time to prepare for the end.
*unavoidable unpleasantness (Hagalaz) duties fulfilled (Tyr).
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, early afternoon, 30min walk.
*squirrel cadaver…Toby cannot refuse squirrel cadaver.
*sunny, cool, no breeze
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Plenty enough to keep me busy on the table shaper all night.  A super-hot, 1-part order showed up.  I spent oneheluvalot time with the stretch press lead-man trying to figure out things.  If I shaped it per planning, it would be too long for the stretch form block.  If I didn’t work it per planning, it could still come back on me…for whatever reason.  It’s a real Catch 22 situation.  So, the stretch press lead man is emailing…whomever…telling them the situation, asking for clarification.
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Message in from my Sisser’s daughter.  Hospice gives my sister 2 weeks.  FUCK!
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I am SICK and tired of phony christians and their pointless prayers.  THEY ARE NOT WANTED!  I DO NOT ACCEPT THEM! 
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, nighty-night
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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married 22 October 1922
Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
Birth 17 March 1888 in Kismet, Kansas
Death 27 Dec 1983 in Marion County, Kansas
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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: Thurisaz: Giant, Donar, the Strong One, defender of the Folk and Ensigart, strength, indelible raw masculine power/strength, reactive and directed force, courage, a breakthrough, self-empowerment, defense from within, defend against outside forces, breaking down barriers, self-defense, assertiveness, facing opposition, bravery, the ultimate mortal fighting force, fertility, fight or flight; choosing to fight.
Conversely:
Thorn, Outside the favor of Donar, the strong One, indelible weakness, powerless, beware of enemies from the outside, defenselessness, failure, disruptive opposition, lack of fertility, shadow of the unconscious, disease, explosive/mindless violence, an enemy's victory, introversion, trouble, betrayal, physical abuse, cowardice, destruction, a loss of masculinity, fight or flight: choosing flight.
*A1R3
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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: Man: 
Havamal 159.
A fourteenth know I Volkrast, the dwarf,
Sings early at the gates of dawn,
To strengthen the Aesir, to empower the Alves,
But to myself, All-Father, to gain wisdom.
 
Strength, magical empowerment, acquisition of Divine wisdom, propagation of the human race, encompasses both the exoteric and the esoteric concepts of humanity, great gain, male mysteries/leadership, manly actions, pulling down the spiritual into material form, human/humanity, increase, masculinity, health, plenty, magic, spirit, truth, God-Man, male principle in Cosmos, birth, health, increase, maleness and man, Divine man, male principle in Cosmos, magic power, thaumaturgy, true self, the resurrected god, the upper part of the world tree, Irminsul, Rune of spiritual powers, of directing Manna powers; the sacred Rune of humankind encouraging us to be human.
“Be a man” (List, 61).
H3R3
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Interpretation: Manly strength (Thurisaz) leads to more manly strength (Man).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6hrs of stuffed up sinuses sleep with 2 wake-ups…not good
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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One scrambled egg with cheese, 4 slices of deli ham, steamed apples.
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Call in from the VA; 60-90 days before my attorney gets anything from them…JsFnChst!
Messaged the disappointing news to my love my fiancée
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I keep thinking I can fix my own computer, but the more I try…well, no.
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Essie with some supervised outside time
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Put fresh straw in Toby’s doghouse.  I pretty much filled the bottom to allow him the privilege of rearranging.  He used it last year, my hope is he repeats it. 
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Call in from my Sisser’s daughter.  She said sisser was in a state of dementia.  She’s refusing everything; medication, oxygen, etc.  She said Sisser has been calling my name.  I need to visit soon.  Can’t today anymore.  I need to get a jump on the day tomorrow to go see her.
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, well behaved, 30min walk.
*mildly cold, sunny, north breeze
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Leftover meatloaf with sweet peppers
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I think I’m taking myself off of daily Cialis and Flomax.  My sinuses are junk enough.  They’re even worse with these in me.
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More than enough at work to keep me on the table shaper.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks outside, 1hr later, Socks inside.  Smart kitty for coming when called.
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PTA shower, beddy-bye.
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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, back to work
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(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: New Year’s Chop Suey
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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)].
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
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
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, 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, 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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(Iulmânôd = Yule Month)
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Plans: we’ll see
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​12th Night
Thus ends the season of Yule as we prepare for the upcoming year. Take time to remember from whence you came, as well as a time to make plans for the near future. Raise your horn high to honor your gods and ancestors.  Honor each other and the inner workings of your relationships.  Take oaths on oath rings.  Make promises to yourself and others.  In our lore, Var is a hand-maiden of Frija.  In the Prose Edda, it is said she listens to people's oaths and private agreements that women and men make between each other. Thus, these contracts are called varar. She also punishes those who break them.
  Hold inventory within yourself or your group so you know your present position in relation to where you want to be. Continue to build the weavings of your Wyrd positively.  The luck within you depends on it.  Remember, "Luck often enough will save a man (or woman) if his (or her) courage holds” (The 13th Warrior, parentheticals added).
HAIL!
HAIL!!
HAIL!!!
(Vaygar Ingvald Elmersson).
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag/Sunna’s Day/Sunday (2nd great grandparents) David   A. Schmidt (1822-1892) and Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
David A. Schmidt (1822-1892)
Birth 19 May 1822 in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna South, Russia
Death 18 Dec 1892 in Marion County, Kansas, United States
*Married 15 November 1849
Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
Birth 23 Jan 1828 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie, Duchy of Poland, West Prussia
Death 01 Apr 1911 in Goessel, Marion County, Kansas, United States
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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.
* no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
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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: Dagaz: Light of day, total enlightenment, awakening, the AH-HA moment, benefit from new information, achieving balance, harmony, hyper-consciousness, the light of dawn, the twilight/dawn polarity, positive focus on life, light at the end of the tunnel, increase, growth, an ending prior to a beginning, transformation, possibly related to the 3rd eye; the mystical place where the two lobes of the brain join.
*A3R7
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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: Ar: 
Havamal 153.
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.
 
Dangers calmed, protection, challenges eased, comfort/stillness, primal fire, nobles, destruction of physical darkness reborn into spiritual light, confidence, Ing-Frô, the Sun, the path to the Light, will, leadership, all that which is beautiful and Sun-like, change to good, virtues, honor, glory, rewarding work, completion, light, Divine spirit, power contained in light that washes away darkness, wisdom, beauty, virtue, trust, honor, fame, Rune of the initiate, Symbolism of the Lord of the Light-elves that returns home from darkness, Rune of peace and good seasons.
“Respect the primal fire” (List, 56).
*H2R4
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Interpretation: Enlightenment (Dagaz) leads to dangers calmed (Ar).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: rough sleep due to a reoccurring dream about my inability to contact work about my absence; seemingly because of a lost or broken cellphone
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Cleaned out a cupboard of old cookies and natural cookies.
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Cereal
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.
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Scrambled eggs with ham and cheese, blueberry pancakes.
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MY IRMINENSCHAFT BROTHER FROM MAINE CALLED!
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, fairly well behaved, 15min, 3-block, roundy-roundy, as Toby is still limping.
*partly cloudy/high clouds, cold, slight north breeze.
I finished 15min on my own.
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Yule Soup
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The Y workout:
4 sets on the ab machine, 25 reps @ 30lbs
2 sets on the rowing machine @ 500 meters, level 6
3 sets on the ab twister, 10 reps, 30lbs
3 sets on the back extension, 25 reps, 30lbs
10min in the hot tub
*1 ½ hrs from doorstep to doorstep.
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Took some Yule soup to four neighbors
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One more bowl of Yule Soup for me; one more for work.
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MASL http://www.maslsoccer.com/
Yesterday
Kansas City 3-5 Baltimore
*smh
Today
St. Louis 5-8 Florida
Cedar Rapids 2-3 Baltimore
Milwaukee 6-4 Kansas City
*ya know, Kim Roentved, who was a player on the Wichita Wings from the 70s and 80s.  He was also a coach with the more recent Wichita B52s; not a successful franchise.  He was successful as a player, but as a coach, seemingly not so much, as he’s the current coach for the Kansas City Comets.  The Comets now stand with a 2-8 record; .200 ball http://www.maslsoccer.com/stats#/192/standings?season_id=734.  Historically, they’ve been a force within the MASL.  Not so this season.
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GoT, S1 Es9 & 10…Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooow…
Season one done!
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9PM: Gave Toby his “I don’t give a shit” medication.  I hope it works.
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As this is the time for oaths, I requested a call-in from my love my fiancée.  I reaffirmed my love, respect, truthfulness, and fidelity, to her, no matter what happens.
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Oh yeah, Toby’s out of it.
Toby handled fireworks like a champ.  He DID wake up, but simply headed to the back of the house; no screaming, no hollering, no yelping.  Once I was done, he headed out with me for a quick walk north.   
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Rune reading for 2018 using the Norns spread
Elder Rune Summons (physical me):
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price.
Elder Runes send me here,
Bid me glimpse into next year.
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Urda; goddess of that which was:
Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don't rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1
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Werdanda; goddess of that which is:
Mannaz Conversely:
Problems relating with Heimo and humanity, without cooperation between people, the inability to work within a social structure in an effective way, self-delusion, intellectual arrogance/ignorance, bigotry, inability to make peace with others, destructive social nature, closed mindedness, failed social interaction and disorder; anti-social behavior and lack of Divine structure.
*A3R4
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Sculd; goddess of that which is owed:
Dagaz: Light of day, total enlightenment, awakening, the AH-HA moment, benefit from new information, achieving balance, harmony, hyper-consciousness, the light of dawn, the twilight/dawn polarity, positive focus on life, light at the end of the tunnel, increase, growth, an ending prior to a beginning, transformation, possibly related to the 3rd eye; the mystical place where the two lobes of the brain join.
*A3R7
 
Armanen Rune summons (spirit me):
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price.
Armanen Runes send me here,
Bid me glimpse into next year.
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Urda, goddess of that which was:
Rit: 
Havamal 149.
That I know as the fifth, should an enemy’s
Arrow come flying into the throng;
As bright as it might clash, I stem its power
Once I firmly fix my eye on it.
 
The exalted, the strength of Will, external power/strength squelched, introspective awareness, that which is passing, council, right, wheel, movement, rhythm, law, correctness, judgment, victory over the lower ego, holding, right order, the judge, advice, salvation, money, original law, that which flows away, religious feeling, ritual action/primal laws, orderliness in the world, the ritual, primal law/Urlag, things that are done correctly, spiritual feeling, ritual action, journey, Divine law, All justice, Rune of the cosmic rhythm of the worlds, wheels, personal empowerment.
“I am my rod (right), this rod (right) is indestructible, therefore, I am myself indestructible, because I am my rod (right)” (List, 53).
*H1R5
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Werdanda; goddess of that which is:
Is:  
Havamal 153.
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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Sculd, goddess of that which is owed:
Ur:
Havamal 146.
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
 
Interpretation:
The physical me:
Major changes have happened this year (to which I wholeheartedly agree) (Hagalaz).  Currently, I have been quite antisocial (to which I wholeheartedly agree) (Mannaz, converse).  Coming up, however, is an enlightenment (Dagaz) that may set everything right.
 
The spirit me:
I have been spiritually powerful this year (Rit) (to which wholeheartedly agree).  Now, I can stay calm (Is) and let things be (to which I wholeheartedly agree).  With power and calm, could bring a true self-awareness (Ur).
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks came out from hiding in his house only long enough to let me know he survived the fireworks, then back to hiding he went.  He was absolutely NOT interested in the option to come out from his house and into the bitter cold.
*Toby is good.
*Essie is good.
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Happy New Year…nighty-night.
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