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March/Lenzomânôd 30, 2017 Frijastag

3/31/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, 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: 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: 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: Control (Ehwaz) leads to revelation (Tyr).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of solid sleep
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.  Still nauseated, but functioning.
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Breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin with a banana
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I love my squirrels.
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Essie keeps THINKING she wants to go outside.  The front yard has always been her favorite.  It certainly doesn’t take long for her to figure out, “OH FUCK NO” even on nice but blustery days.
*Socks on the other hand…
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Toby and I out for a late morning, well behaved, 30min walk
*sunny, mild, no breeze
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Okay, here are a couple of posts I made on Facebook:
*What's so "GOOD" about celebrating a day when a guy got the shit kicked out of him then was hung out to dry?
Also
* OOOOOooooo...this means the Christian Easter falls on April Fool’s Day.  Enough said...
Ehwaz/Tyr
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Soup, salad, and a grilled cheese with ham sandwich for lunch.
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This shift has to be the hardest I’ve worked for the least amount of time turned-in.  I really don’t remember the first two orders.  The next two orders were 7 parts each, but anywhere from 12-15ft long, in need of a rough cut, a final cut (1.75), then debur.  They both took MUCH LONGER than the 19min allotted.  The final two orders were worthless to me time-wise.  The first one had twenty-nine parts.  The next had only four parts.  They consisted of the same single cut (1.3), with the debur embedded on the same operation.  I didn’t know if I could get both of them done if I did the debur operation myself.  Instead, I opted to get both of them done, take the “partial confirm” (which is meaningless for me) and get them over to debur.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks out…Socks back into his house.
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Gotham S4 E16
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02:00 nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Heil to you, Forsizo, son of Paltar and Nanda!  You’re the god of justice and reconciliation.  You sit in judgement of the right and wrong of all arguments.  We call out to you in our time of legal need.  We know that justice is a double-edged ax.  On the one side, if our argument is just, grant us the proper conclusion.  On the other side, if our argument is fraudulent, mete-out justice accordingly.  Whether in the court of legal proceedings or the court of public opinion, grant us the justice according to the rightness of our deeds.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, FORSIZO, as we honor the Forsizo that resides in us all!
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 31, 2017 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

3/31/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: domestic stuff
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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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.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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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: Gebo: The mystical union of gift and giver, repay gift for gift, generosity, a fair exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, obligations, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality, do not take more than we are willing to give, the voluntary sacrifice of resources.
*A1R7
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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: Fa: 

Havamal 145.
The first one promises to help generously

In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: Gift (Gebo) leads to generous help[ (Fa).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of restless sleep.
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 255
Glucose: 105
BP: 132/88
Pulse: 79
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée, 
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I’ve been meaning to recreate the traditional English breakfast I remember from my trips there.  If you’re on Facebook, here it is:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1337441553056010&set=a.103395719793939.4355.100003705333078&type=3&theater
*my honey said, “Ew”.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
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Toby and I out for a late afternoon, fairly well behaved, 30min walk.
*sunny/high clouds, mild, north breeze
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Hoffenheim 6:0 Köln
Stuttgart 1:1 Hamburger
Leverkusen 0:0 Augsburg
Hannover 2:3 Leipzig
Schalke 2:0 Frankfurt
München v Borussia Dortmund on FS1/Sling-TV
*5th min tor/goal munchen
*14th min tor/goal munchen
*23rd min tor/goal munchen
*44th min tor/goal munchen
*45th min tor/goal munchen
*@ the half, Bayern 5-0 BVB…JsFnChst!
*87th min tor/goal munchen
*thank the gods the end of the match
*Munchen 6-0 BVB <smh>
Berlin 0:0 Wolfsburg
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German Food Truck for lunch
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Three loads of laundry
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I had to get out:
Kwik Shop
Lowe’s (not on the agenda but since I was out that way)
*magnolia tree and planting stuff
Dollar General
Dillons
Dillons petrol for $1.78 with petrol points
Walgreens
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I worked well past sunset getting the magnolia tree in and covered, along with the other baby shrubs covered.
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Ya know, when I started running errands it was 73deg and I was running the a/c in the car.  As I finished errands it was 53deg.  Finishing planting and covering, it was fucking cold w/o a jacket!
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Yesterday
Toronto 3:1 Salt Lake
Today
Orlando 4:3 NYRB
Columbus 1:2 Vancouver
LA Galaxy 4:3 LAFC
Chicago 2:2 Portland
Minnesota 0:1 Atlanta
San Jose 1:2 NYCFC
Houston 0:2 New England
Sporting KC v DC
*3rd min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*@ the half, SKC 1:0 DC
*end of match, SKC 1:0 DC
*SKC WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colorado 3:0 Philly
Seattle 0:1 Montreal
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Oh, leather recliner, I so love you.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Not sure when I fell asleep in the leather recliner, but I know I woke up at midnight to go to bed.
Nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Saga, glorious goddess of history, we greatly honor you as part and parcel of our ever-expanding past.  As we share in Minnatranc, whisper to our hearts of the stories about our gods, our ancestors, our heroes and their glories.  Be the resource for our memories should we ever forget from whence we come.  Gently remind us that we all have a rich history from which to pull.  For it is as we remember and respect the past can we deal with our present, knowing that we will someday have to deal with our spiritual debt.  We honor you, Saga, as a repository for the basis of all that we are, all that we are coming to be, and all that our offspring will inherit from us.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, SAGA, as we honor the Saga that resides in us all.
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 29, 2017 Donarstag

3/30/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, 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: Fehu (U):  Cattle, wealth, Ing-Frô; the god of abundance, Audhumla; the primal bovine, the ability to create and maintain wealth and the accompanying power, creative forces, Odhumbal, the primeval bovine, fire, beginnings, productivity, positive energy, life force, self-respect, personal power, one’s condition in life, generosity that needs to come with the social responsibility of wealth.
Conversely:
The negative blessing of prosperity, stagnant finances, lack of creative energies, productivity failure, and the inability to and/or create wealth, greed, disconnected from the life source, fear of failure, an ending, an unfortunate condition, fiery powers extinguished, atrophy/decline, failed ambition, lack of self-esteem, an ineffective beginning and an irresponsible misuse of power.
*A1R1
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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: Os: 
Havamal 148.
The fourth one I know, when a foe has tied up

My arms and hands;
The fetters fall from my leg, when I chant that song,
And off my hands the ropes come.
 
Freedom from bondage, the power of speech/song, mouth, arising, ashes, that which is offered, Wodanic energies, leadership, mouth, speech, the effort to convince, deed following the word, the Divine Breath, kingship, discussion, idea of that which is given/evolving, the spiritual power that is gained through speech, it is the breath of the world, its voice, strength that a person needs to rise-up in power, freedom from the bondage of the material world.
“Your spiritual force makes you free” (List, 51).
*H1R4
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Interpretation: positive/negative energy (Fehu) leads to deeds following words (Os).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7 ½ hours of good sleep with only one wake up.
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My love my fiancée is already busy this morning.  While waiting:
Extra time with Socks in his house
Extra time with Essie at the computer
Love you, baby.
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Breakfast on a whole wheat English muffin and a banana
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Toby and I out for a noon hour, somewhat stubborn, 30min walk.
*cool, overcast, slight north breeze
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Beef stew from a can + butter bread + raw carrots
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Finally, it was just a regular ole night at work; no drama, no problems, just busy.
*Fehu/Os
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The X-Files S11 E5
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks out, Socks in
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Nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Die [(German for feminine “the”) (pronounced “Dee”)] Wurtâ:
Die Wurtâ, all three, are present at birth
To weave our Fate from merriment to dearth.
Urda, Werdanda and Sculd, the dark queens renowned;
Glorious ladies ‘neath the Tree, work your mysteries in us now.

That which “was” we can clearly see.
That which “is becoming” forms now in our deeds.
That which “is owed”, may be, but we cannot see.
We celebrate die Wurtâ, the Ladies Three, for all eternity.
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 28, 2017 Wodanstag

3/29/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = 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: Jera: Harvest, 12th Rune of the Futhark, the number 12, cycles, a turning point, cause and effect, the Rune of return, two halves of a cyclic whole, harmony-in-movement-in-balance, improvement, expansion, growth, progress, patience, fruition of plans, the mystic union between Earth and the Cosmos, the result of a previous action, appropriate reward for the right (or wrong) action.
*A2R4
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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: Thorn: 
Havamal 147.
A third I take, when danger threatens,

To bind the enemies through magic:
Thus, I dull the steel of the furious opponent.
Like the staff, his sword does not cut anymore.
 
Donar, deflecting an opponent, making ineffective, protection from danger, enemies bound through magic, impermeable, an awakening, the power to turn, the divine will to act, the law of eternal reincarnation, power to become, Return, new emergence from what's apparently old and dried-up, formative power of the seed, the thunderbolt, targeting goals, activity and the phallus, mental telepathy, projection of the will, fierce protection, psychic attack & defense, penetrating time & space, a constant renewal of life in rebirth, Rune of opposing polarities and of joining opposites, binding of and victory over the enemy.
“Preserve your ego” (List, 51).
*H1R3
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Interpretation: Harvest (Jera) leads to protection (Thorn).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: Almost 7hrs of solid sleep.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.  She’s working, no matter how she feels.
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Breakfast on a whole wheat English muffin, a banana, and a fruit smoothie.
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OH WOW!  A squirrel was waiting at the tree for my peanut offering.  At first, Toby spooked it and it went scampering to the back of the tree.  Soon enough, it came back around to take a peanut out from my hand!  I love my squirrels.
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Paid a few bills via snail mail and arranged utility bill payments through my bank
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Toby and I out for a perfektly behaved, noon hour, 30min walk.
*cool, cloudy, slight breeze
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Dillons
Dillons petrol
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Oven baked beer bräts, kraut, steamed asparagus
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Just shy of 12hrs turned in for an 8hr shift.
I trusted my union steward with an observation.  That trust was violated and I confronted him about it.  I just hope I don’t pay the price for that trust.
*Jera/Thorn
There’s a new guy in the shop.  He looks every bit as old as I am if not a bit older.  I’m sixty-three.  Turns out he’s FIFTY-NINE!  Amazing…
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X-Files S11 E4
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks out.  Socks back inside his house.
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02:00, nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Heimo, HEAR ME!  Gellanhorn’s god, son of nine mothers and whitest of all gods.  You’re the genetic link between the gods and humankind. From your home in Himilberg, your keen eyes and sharp ears guard Ensigart, the world of the gods. As you stand so alert for the approach of giants, remind us that we must also watch for our own encroaching evil. Let weakness, cowardice, lies and dishonor be barred from Ensiwëg, the Rainbow Bridge, leading to our heart’s abode. Be a model for vigilance, that we may rise to the best that is in us, and someday join the Noble Gods in their shining homes. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, HEIMO, as we honor the Heimo that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 27, 2017 Dienstag

3/28/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day/Tuesday (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72)
Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967)
Birth 15 May 1898 in Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA
Death 26 Mar 1967 in Hesston, Harvey County, Kansas, United States
*Married 2 June 1920
Maria Hildebrand (1894-72)
Birth 30 Dec 1894 in Marion County, Ks, USA
Death 22 Jul 1972 in Newton, Harvey County, KS, USA
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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: Laguz: A body of water, the necessity of water as a life source, life well-lived, life ever-flowing; seen and unseen, going with the flow, fluidity, the leek (a healing herb) the feminine, Nirdu, Erda (Mother Earth), Ing-Frô and Frouwa, emotions intact, potential for life, magical workings, conform with emotions, personal growth, the basic energy and secret source of organic life, feeling, the deep minded Spirit, intuition.
Conversely:
A dried-up body of Water, the struggles of life, swimming upstream, difficulties with relating to the feminine, manipulation, lack of moral fiber, emotions out of control or suppressed, shallow minded, deception, unsympathetic, totally void of growth, failing to go with the flow, frivolity, immaturity, depression, inability to formulate with the emotional world, unstimulated, sinking/drowning, disconnect with the Inner Self.
*A3R5
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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: Fluidity (Laguz) leads to protection (Ar).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: WOW!  A 2am bedtime last night and an almost 10am wake-up…. scheese!
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée…she’s still sick.  She may be used to this but I am not.
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Breakfast sandwich and a banana
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I ABSOLUTELY HATE DEALING WITH NAVIENT!
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Toby and I out for a noon hour, perfektly behaved, 30min walk.
*cool, lite-rain, nice north breeze.
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Sleeping-in until 10am really shoots the day.
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Salmon patties from frozen, potato coins and asparagus…OMGs YUM!
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I’ve determined that Essie doesn’t like radio.  While the radio is playing in the bedroom, she reclines just outside the bedroom.  Without it, she readily goes onto the bed.
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Not a horrible night at work.  I just get sick and tired of working for the Man.  I’m sick and tired of being micro-managed.  I’m tired of seemingly not measuring up to expectations.  Let’s face it, I’m just tired.  I do my best to be fluid (Laguz).  I do my best to protect myself (Ar).  Sometimes it seems my best often times just isn’t good enough.  Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate my job.  I’m just tired.
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The X-Files, S11 E3; on FOX NOW/Sling-TV
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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02:00 Nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Ostara, trustworthy goddess; wife to Brego; the adherent god of scalds, keeper of the golden apples of youth and eternal life, keep us young inside. When we are starving for laughter, hungry for the lightness that comes with having few years on our shoulders, slip us one of those gleaming fruits that we may see the world through youthful eyes. Let springtime be in our steps, love in our hearts and a song on our lips. Change us to the core! Fill us with optimism and dreams for the future. WE GIVE YOU MOST A HEART-FELT HEIL, OSTARA, as we honor the Ostara that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 26, 2017 Manostag

3/27/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, 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)].
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: 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: Hagal: 
Havamal 151.
A seventh I learned, if the hall is burning

With fire around bench and comrades;
However bright it burns, I will banish the blaze,
As soon I sing the magic chant.
 
To enclose/destroy, danger brought under control, introspection, awareness, eternal change, the Mother of all Runes, the cohesion of the world, die (pronounced ‘dee’ German for ‘the’) Alle Mutter, Frija, that which cares and maintains, protects, and preserves; that which is motherly; wisdom, harmony, salvation, blessing, protects from hail and fire, eternal change, caring and maintaining principle in the Universe, Higher Self, the perfect human being, Divine within, the Rune of humanity, married to the World, Rune of enclosure but contains a potential for growth, builder/architect of the worlds, the macrocosm of the world itself.
“Harbor the All in yourself, and you will control the All” (List, 54).
*H2R1
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Interpretation: Calm (Isa) leads to introspection (Hagal).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7 or 8 hrs of sleep…not sure…but for sure, 4 wake-ups.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.  It’s another rough morning for her.  It’s been more than a week since she’s been well.  Nonetheless, she’s working.  Tough girl…
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FINALLY, I was able to watch Gotham S4 E15 in its entirety; FOX NOW, on Sling-TV.
*wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow…
*HEY!  X-Files is on there, too!
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Once again researched the possibility of learning the rudiments of Plattdeutsch; the language of my ancestors.
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Toby and I out for a late morning, perfektly behaved, 30min walk.
*muggy/damp/fog/cloudy/PERFEKT!
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Well scheisse…now that I have realized I have access to FOX NOW on my Roku device, I’m in trouble.  I have access to The X-Files episodes back to its inception.  I can’t do that, but I can review the end of one season and the beginning of the recent.  I reviewed the episodes, My Struggles 2 and 3.  WOW!
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Pretty good shift @ work.  I EASILY turned in more that ten hours, probably upwards of 12 hours.  Scrapped a part right at the end.
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X-Files S11 E2: This
*well hela, the FOX experience on the tele is no different than online.  There is no pausing or restarting the show without a profile, which I stayed up until 2am trying to do, but was unsuccessful.  FUCK!  If nothing else I have the ability to watch this shit in the comfort of my wingback chair instead of the computer chair.  I’ll have to finish this episode tomorrow.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks out, Socks back inside his house soon enough.
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Nighty-night.
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God/dess Meditation: 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!
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March/Lenzomânôd 25, 2017 Sunnastag

3/26/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, domestic stuff
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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: Gebo: The mystical union of gift and giver, repay gift for gift, generosity, a fair exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, obligations, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality, do not take more than we are willing to give, the voluntary sacrifice of resources.
*A1R7
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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: Bar: 
Havamal 157.
A thirteenth I mention, when I sprinkle the son,

The young one, with holy water,
If once he faces the foe, then he cannot fall,
No sword can wound him so he collapses in the dust.
 
Blessing, shielding, inspiration, encouragement, security, impending accidents that effect fate, life, birth: birth of the future life that is preordained for us, becoming, being projected, help in birth, son, bread, song, fountain, mountains, meaning of life on this planet/in this world, the power of becoming, reconstruction, Rune of continuous transformation, death and rebirth metamorphosis, return to the Mothers; the fountain as female symbol, the eternal spring of humans.
“Thy life strands in the hand of God, trust it in you” (List, 60).
H3R1
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Interpretation: Gift (Gebo) leads to blessing (Bar).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 8-hours of sleep, two wake-ups (Toby out/Toby in).
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée…not much better.
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Breakfast: three jumbo scrambled with cheese, potato coins, turkey kielbasa, whole wheat English muffin with strawberry jelly, skim milk, and apple juice…YUM!
*Toby was so funny.  He knows he gets a meat treat at breakfast…usually.  I’m spending a HELA of a lot for his Science Diet Prescription food.  Anymore, I insist he eats his canned food first.  Today, typically, when Toby realized I was cooking breakfast, he perked-up.  I stopped him at the door, telling him, “No sir, you have to eat this first” tapping food by his not-yet-eaten food plate.  He looked at me all disappointed, but then started eating his food.  I WAS AMAZED!!!!!!!  HE FULLY UNDERSTOOD!  He finished his plate, then finished my plate with 5 slices of turkey kielbasa left on it for him from breakfast.  I am SO fucking proud of my buddy!
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German Food truck @ the Water-Walk
*placed in the warmer @ home
*Fb: https://www.facebook.com/LetmEatBrats/
*Web: http://www.letmeatbrats.net/
*FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/238323113406425/
Tried something new, too: The Brown Box Bakery: https://www.facebook.com/TheBrownBoxBakeryWichita/?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser
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Toby and I out for a perfektly behaved, early afternoon, 30min walk.
*partly cloudy, cool, slight breeze
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Here’s a little gift (Gebo) and a blessing (Laf).  The Major Arena Soccer League now has a developmental league, MASL 2:
Fb: https://www.facebook.com/m2arenasoccer/
Web: http://www.m2soccer.com/
For the future of this sport, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT IDEA!
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Now what is this peculiar cartoon series I stumbled across on my Roku device; Toon Googles?  Fleabag Monkeyface?   It’s so odd and disgusting it’s hilarious!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleabag_Monkeyface
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Two loads of laundry
Brother’s with trash
Dillons
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Two loads of laundry
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Duke v KU:
…..81-85
KU advances to the Final Four
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game?gameId=401025882
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MASL Championship http://www.maslsoccer.com/
Monterrey Flash v Baltimore Blast on MASL-TV/YouTube
1st qtr. 0-1
2nd qtr. 0-2
3rd qtr. 1-0
4th qtr. 2-1
Final:  Flash 3-4 Blast
BLAST WIN!  BLAST WIN!  IN YOUR FACE YOU ARROGANT MEXICANS!
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Deactivated Vaygar’s account on Fb.  I’ve been double posting for 6yrs, and I’m tired of it.
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Showered
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Gotham S4 E15…mostly.  This is the worst online streaming experience I have ever had.  There is no Chromecast, no personal controls.  I tried to watch it twice, but at the end…somewhere…it freezes, and there is no way to come back to it where it froze and continue.
*well shit!  I found it on my Roku device!  I can watch it in its entirety now,..well…tomorrow.
*Gebo/Bar
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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God/dess Meditation: Sunna, goddess of the Sun:
Greetings to you Sunna, in all your feminine, fertile glory; Lamp of Wodan, newly risen! Hail to you who is the counterpart to Mano, male aspect of the Moon.  You have shown on all our ancestors, you shine on us, and you will yet shine on our decedents yet unborn. Share with us some of your light, your energy, your power, so that we might better fight our battles and attain our goals. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL SUNNA, as we honor the Sunna that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 24, 2017 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

3/25/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, electrician over, blackberry bush shopping @ Lowe’s
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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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.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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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: Uruz: The Auroch beast, the primal instinct, life force, survival, endurance, the ability of action, creation taking shape, expansion, tenacity, vital strength, instinct of survival, stability, raw physical power, taking risks, stick-to-itiveness, foundation, a stabilizing effect, moral strength, healing, good health, rejuvenation, energy levels, rage, health and energy, primal drizzle.
Conversely:
A weakened position, deprivation, out of sync, an impulse towards inaction, a severe lack of foundation, energy at low levels, illness, reduction, instability, elasticity, uncontrolled rage, without the will to survive, misdirected force, taking no risks at this time, weakness; either physical or emotional, illness, the inability to overcome obstacles.
*A1R2
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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: Laf: 
Havamal 158.
A fourteenth I sing to the assembled Folk

When naming the divine names;
The Aesir and Alves and their various kinds
No one can spell out without learning.
 
Determination, learned knowledge, singing before the All, presentation, Urlag; life fate and destiny, life as law, life following the law, experience, test, temptations by life-circumstances, water, sea, good management, test of life, school of the lives, relations, defeat and the laws of nature, life and primal law, psychic & spiritual awareness, cosmic flow, seeds of thought, the etheric part of the body, initiation that experiences life on earth as a continuous process of initiation, The Cosmic Ocean.
“First learn to steer, then dare the sea-journey” (List, 60).
H3R2
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Interpretation: Stability (Uruz) leads to learned knowledge (Laf)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: Fell asleep on the recliner.  Toby camped-out all night, then woke me @ 7:30 to come in.  WOW!  Slept-in until 9:30
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 254
Glucose: 125
BP: 134/84
Pulse: 81
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée…only slight improvement.
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No Bundesliga matches scheduled
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Electrician over late morning.  He said my circuit breaker box was adequate but will need to be tweaked for the room addition.
*burrito from frozen while he was here.
*Uruz/Laf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Toby and I out for a perfektly behaved, noon hour, 30min walk.
*partly cloudy, mild, nice north breeze
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Another burrito from frozen
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Book and CD from Amazon
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QT
White Dove
Lowe’s
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Spent all afternoon planting the blackberry bush, adding mulch to all shrub beds, covered all hoses and tested all sprinklers.  Things are looking good!
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
New England 2-2 NYCFC
Dallas 1-1 Portland
Columbus 3-1 DC
NYRB 3-0 Minnesota
Colorado v Sporting KC on FSKC/Sling-TV
*5th min goal Colorado
*8th min goal Colorado
*@ the half, Colorado 2-0 SKC
*57th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*90+1 GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match 2-2
*whew!
Vancouver 0-0 LA
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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A bit more channel surfing
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God/dess Meditation: Frouwa & Ing-Frô:
Frouwa, most lovely of all goddesses; who could not love you?  Women as their own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. WE GIVE YOU MOST A HEART-FELT HEIL, FROUWA, as we honor the Frouwa that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Ing-Frô, you’re the Great God of Fridu (all-encompassing safety and protection), Ar (peace, good seasons), the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the god of this World. When the day to day wears us down remind us of pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing-Frô, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, ING-FRÔ, as we honor the Ing-Frô that resides in all of us!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 23, 2017 Frijastag

3/24/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: Electrician, HONEY IN TOWN, taking the day off.
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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: Eihwaz: Irminsul, the Cosmic pillar, inner strength, stress and difficulties, overcoming obstacles, need to have backbone to get through, endurance, “Shit happens, get over it! “, temporary cosmic consciousness, stability over external circumstances, resilience, the Shamanic link of experiences within the All.  “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” (Friedrich Nietzsche).
*A2R5
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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: Not: 
Havamal 152.
An eighth is mine, to all the Folk

Useful to know in their suffering;
Where hatred rises-up between man and man,
This I can settle fast.
 
Distress, suffering, compulsion of fate, separation, confrontation, strife settled, understanding suffering, settled calm, mind over matter, necessity of fate, misery and death, change of luck as necessity, decision of the Wurtâ, Wurt/Urlag paid-for, cause-effect relations, capability to restructure Wurt/Urlag, That which cannot be averted, the Ur-law that is active in every creature, stress, karmic debt, karmic need, but with outlook for change of karma, banishing ill fortune by means of accepting karma and karmic law, Skuld, Divine justice that balances.
“Use your fate, do not strive against it” (List, 55).
*H2R2
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Interpretation: Inner strength (Eihwaz) leads to strife settled (Not).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 6hrs of solid sleep
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Started cleaning house
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Two loads of laundry
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Well shit, honey is sick and can’t make the drive.  That shoots that.  She’s been nauseated all week, hoping to have it under control by this weekend.  Such has not been the case.
*Eihwaz/difficulties/Not/suffering
*woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!
I’m going to go ahead and go into work later.  I’m not wasting time off needlessly.
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Goddamn christian women at the door inviting me to church for easter Sunday…HAHAHAHAHA!
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Electrician is LATE and not answering his phone!  Message left.
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I sold my ICT Comic Con tickets @ half price.  Meet the buyer @ the McDs @ Harry and Hillside.
Toby and I out for a late morning/noon hour, well behaved, 30min walk.
*mild. Sunny/high clouds, stout south wind.
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Looks like the electrician is a no-call-no-show.  As with any business relationship, no-call-no-show means YOUR FIRED!
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Last of the turkey meatballs dipped in BBQ sauce and a garden salad
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Since my weekend opened up, I called Lowe’s asking about blackberry bushes.  It’s seems they have something like TWENTY of them.  Perhaps ONE MORE planting!
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Called around for electricians to get bids on the circuit panel replacement project.
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24 parts, all night at work.  I inadvertently caused problems with them but realized it too late to fix it.  I can imagine 1st shift won’t touch them so I might be able to fix them Monday on my dime.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Oh leather recliner, you have become such a good friend for sleep.
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God/dess Meditation: Frija:
Frija, Great Alle-Mutter; caregiver of Family, Hearth and Home, wife to Alle-Vater Wodan.  Teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, FRIJA, as we honor the Frija that resides in us all!  HEIL ALLE MUTTER HEIL!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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March/Lenzomânôd 22, 2017 Donarstag

3/23/2018

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(Lenzomânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, 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: two Runes:
Fehu (U):  Cattle, wealth, Ing-Frô; the god of abundance, Audhumla; the primal bovine, the ability to create and maintain wealth and the accompanying power, creative forces, Odhumbal, the primeval bovine, fire, beginnings, productivity, positive energy, life force, self-respect, personal power, one’s condition in life, generosity that needs to come with the social responsibility of wealth.
Conversely:
The negative blessing of prosperity, stagnant finances, lack of creative energies, productivity failure, and the inability to and/or create wealth, greed, disconnected from the life source, fear of failure, an ending, an unfortunate condition, fiery powers extinguished, atrophy/decline, failed ambition, lack of self-esteem, an ineffective beginning and an irresponsible misuse of power.
*A1R1
 
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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: Not: 
Havamal 152.
An eighth is mine, to all the Folk

Useful to know in their suffering;
Where hatred rises-up between man and man,
This I can settle fast.
 
Distress, suffering, compulsion of fate, separation, confrontation, strife settled, understanding suffering, settled calm, mind over matter, necessity of fate, misery and death, change of luck as necessity, decision of the Wurtâ, Wurt/Urlag paid-for, cause-effect relations, capability to restructure Wurt/Urlag, That which cannot be averted, the Ur-law that is active in every creature, stress, karmic debt, karmic need, but with outlook for change of karma, banishing ill fortune by means of accepting karma and karmic law, Skuld, Divine justice that balances.
“Use your fate, do not strive against it” (List, 55).
*H2R2
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Interpretation: A new beginning (Fehu) and control (Ehwaz) lead to a strife settled (Not).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: WTF?  Slept-in until 9:30am??????????
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Quick good morning chat with my love my fiancée.
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Shower
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Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich give to me by a colleague last night @ work.
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Toby and I out for a noon hour, well behaved (well behaved because I hung on to a cadaver he wanted badly), 30min walk.  Mild, sunny, south breeze
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Since the growing season has started, all baby trees and shrubs got a good drink.
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Pizza Hut for lunch with a garden salad
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OMGs!  I walked into another shit-storm @ work!  Probably the worst yet.
*I go to my table shaper and just KNEW something wasn’t right.  Hot parts not finished and set aside, table-shaper set-up on something not-so-hot.  These parts that were hotter-than-the-hubs-of-hades yesterday, one part scrapped yesterday by a 2nd shift colleague who cut short the joggled end.  More material was ordered and the contour achieved by hand-forming, were still there.  TODAY, the opposite end was cut short by my 1st shift colleague.  Immediately, the 1st shift Super tried to deflect blame by asking us why we didn’t run them yesterday.  Time-stamp showed hand-forming didn’t sign them out until 11:30pm, which means we had to time to run them anyway. 1st shift Super walked away fuming.
*I firmly believe planning often times has no idea what we do.  My operation said to add .2 “to the right end”, but we don’t deal with “ends”.  I checked with a stretch-press operator to make sure I wasn’t missing something.  I had NO IDEA why, the stretch-press operator had no idea why that instruction was on my operation in the first place.  I just carried-on per data set.
*My Super brought to me an order of parts with a note in them saying, “leg was cut too short”.  I went back to my operation, that said to alter cap only, which I did.  I remember that order quite well, because it said to add .05 to each side of cap to accommodate stretch-forming.  The leg had no indication of altering; rather, a factory edge, which I brought to the attention of my Super.  Possibly, whoever ordered the material, ordered the wrong material.  I just know, and my Super was convinced, I was not to blame.
*Lead man in chord-trimming brought an order of parts to me, saying one side of the cap was too wide.  Checking the planning, the data set showed leg was fine, one side of cap was fine, but the other side of the cap wasn’t touched at all, but needed to be altered to 1.18, this also by my first shift colleague.  I brought this to the attention of my Super, and he asked me to print off the data set.  He said, “Obviously they’re in need of help”.  Jeez…  Imagine that, 1st shift, with all their experience, needed help from a lowly, less experienced 2nd shifter.  I put the parts and the print-out on the 1st shift Super’s desk.  
*C’mon…I just had to laugh at all this stupidity.  May I continue now, with my regularly scheduled shift?
*Fehu/Ehwaz/Not
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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God/dess Meditation: Donar:
Donar, Son of Wodan and Erda, husband to Sibba with the Golden Hair, wielder of Malant and Great God of thunder, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, encourage us to advance. When we would be weak, hearten us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, inspire our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Excite our growth from strength to strength; teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who oppose our will. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, DONAR, as we honor the Donar that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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