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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, courthouse, work 8hrs 
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Elder Rune: Wunjo: Joy, pasture, happiness attained with the fulfillment of a wish, the strong Clanic relationship, social contacts, family ties, Clanic solidarity, fellowship, happiness, optimism, realization of true will, social and domestic harmony, good cheer, new social relationships, Fridu attained within a secure setting, a bright attitude of Wodan exposed.
Conversely:
Sadness, disruption/breakdown in the Clanic relationship, questionable social contacts, loser, miserable, loneliness, shunning, weakened family/Clanic ties, social and domestic disharmony, the inability to attain a wish, strife, alienation, pessimism, failed social relationships, Fridu is challenged, the shadow/dark side of Wodan is exposed.
*A1R8
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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: Happiness attained with the fulfillment of a wish (Joy) leads to an awakening (Thorn)
*admitted bias as I prepare for a marriage license.
*“The connection of Thor's hammer with life and fertility gave rise to the old Norse customs of placing a hammer in a bride's lap at her wedding…”
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Sp-Tl/Thor.html
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of solid sleep
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Quick good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin and a banana
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To courthouse to apply for a marriage license
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Lite rain
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Finished downloading all the photos I want from Vaygar’s Fb page.
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 Bundesliga (rather odd on Monday) https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Leipzig 1-3 Leverkusen on FS2/Sling-TV
*good job, Leverkusen!
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Toby and I out for a noon hour, misbehaved, 30min walk.  Toby’s failure to respond to a common voice command put him on the retractable for most of the walk.
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Trying to talk to TFC is worse than trying to talk to NAVIENT.
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Not a horrible 8hrs @ work; busy on the table shaper, no drama.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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01:30 Nighty-night
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(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: ??????????????
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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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Armanen Rune: Eh: 
Havamal 161.
A seventeenth I know, through a wise law
To join two lives in love;
And everyone is willing, no virginal woman
Will leave me lightly after this.
 
Warns against frivolous, transient love affairs, the legal bond between man and woman, lasting love, two bound together by the primal law of life, unification, sanctity of marriage, the cross of wedlock, fulfillment, maintaining strict morals within the bonds of legal marriage, love, duality, bound by primal law, love, trust and marriage. Soul-mates, wedding, partnership, permanent bond, binding decision, hope, duration, horse, permanence and marriage as a law, unity of ego and you, sister souls, soul-love, God-Man-Woman, ideal love, twin souls, two made one, success, increase.
“Marriage is the raw-root of the Aryans” (List, 63).
*H3R5
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Interpretation: Fluidity (Laguz) leads to marriage (Eh).
*counting on it.
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with only one wake-up, and not due to a cramp!
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.  She has a theory as to why she’s been so nauseous lately; experiment to be added.
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Weather channel online: 36degF.  Ice droplets on the covering over the baby shrubs.  JsFnChst!  No sooner did I remove their coverings, and it started to sleet.
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Scrambled eggs with cheese and ham pieces, on whole wheat toast, diced potatoes added.
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Well hela, I tried to add myself as a contributor to Vaygar’s albums on Fb.  I THOUGHT it would give me access.  Seemingly not.
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
*I don’t think I’ll ever become accustomed to the time difference.
Borussia Dortmund v Stuttgart
*38th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*@ the half, BVB 1-0 Stuttgart
*49th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*59th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match; BVB 3-0 Stuttgart
*BVB WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frankfurt 1-1 Hoffenheim on FS2/Sling-TV
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Okay, so I guess the only thing I can do is download pics from Vaygar’s account and upload them later.  It sure is more work than I wanted to put into this.
*fuck it!  I give up!  It’s almost 2pm and I haven’t done a goddamn thing!
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Toby and I out for a mid-afternoon, well behaved, 30min walk.
*cloudy, mild, slight south breeze
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Bank
BK
Dillons
*nice gentle rain
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Shower
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Orlando 3-2 Portland
< Oven baked beer bräts, diced potatoes and a garden salad>
LA v Sporting KC
*@ the half, 0-0
*56th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*61st min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match; LA 0-2 SKC
*SPORTING KANSAS CITY WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Straightened up the house to presentable standards
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Nighty-night
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(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: ???????????????????????
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(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 9hrs
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Elder Rune: Mannaz: The human, Heimo; our genetic connection to the gods, humankind, cooperation between people, the special human, the human intellect, awareness, kinship, social structure, the ability to work well within a social structure in an effort be effective within it, social interaction and order, perfected intellect, attract support from your peers, attainment of common goals, Divine structure.
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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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: Sig: 
Havamal 155.
This I know as an eleventh, when
I accompany my dear friend into combat;
I sing it into the shield, so that he triumphs in battle
And that luck and happiness surrounds him always.
 
Triumph, surrounded with luck and happiness, victory, success, gain, well-being, victorious and happy, into the fray, blessing from above, successful fight, achieved goal, school, and salvation by light, inspiration, soul, and power of the sun, inspiration, soul, life force, wholeness, reliable success, healing, good luck, spiritual completion, and the path of the soul, Rune of the spiritual ray of inspiration, wisdom, and illumination.
“The creative spirit must conquer” (List, 57).
*H2R5
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Interpretation: Social interaction (Mannaz) leads to triumph (Sig).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: a bit more than 7hrs of sleep with one wake-up
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Finally, moving around @ 11am
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Two breakfast burritos from frozen.
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Call into Elite Construction.  Room addition will break ground sometime next week, with an estimated completion date of May 18th.
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Well, hela, I’ve never done that.  Since I had my sink updated with a new faucet and nozzle at the request of my honey, she mentioned needing the nozzle to wash her hair in the sink if necessary.  Showering at 2am and going to bed with wet has is undesirable.  I found that washing my hair in the sink just prior to walking Toby, and letting it dry naturally, is a very good thing.
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, well behaved, 30min walk.
*sunny, mildly warm, south breeze.
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Pepperoni Hot Pockets with onion rings.
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 It was another good night time-wise @ work on the table shaper.  The hour I entered after midnight yesterday counted for today.  My bread-n-butter parts came in (460min), along with similar parts (127min+145min).  I ran a couple of things prior and something after, so I came pretty close if not more than 15hrs turned in for a 9hr shift.  It’s gone like this all week.  Tomorrow may be another story.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks came home when called.
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02:45 nighty-night
*stayed up WAY TOO LONG figuring out the cropping tool I have on this computer.  Nonetheless, the pics my CG buddy sent are much more useable now.
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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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Alaf Sal Fena!

(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8 or 9 hours.
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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: 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: Sig: 
Havamal 155.
This I know as an eleventh, when
I accompany my dear friend into combat;
I sing it into the shield, so that he triumphs in battle
And that luck and happiness surrounds him always.
 
Triumph, surrounded with luck and happiness, victory, success, gain, well-being, victorious and happy, into the fray, blessing from above, successful fight, achieved goal, school, and salvation by light, inspiration, soul, and power of the sun, inspiration, soul, life force, wholeness, reliable success, healing, good luck, spiritual completion, and the path of the soul, Rune of the spiritual ray of inspiration, wisdom, and illumination.
“The creative spirit must conquer” (List, 57).
*H2R5
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Interpretation: The sacrificial gift (Gebo) leads to triumph (Sig).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with one big-toe cramp.
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Quick good morning chat with my love my fiancée.
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two eggs sunny-side-up, turkey kielbasa, whole wheat English muffin with strawberry jelly.
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OMGs!  The other day I joined a group on FB, Forever Coasties, and an old CG buddy replied to a comment of mine!  He was my best buddy on the Cutter Sorrel in Alaska.
*Gebo/Sig
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Call in from attorney.  It’s going like I thought.  We started with a high-ball, they come back with a low-ball.  She finally asked me what I was expecting to be satisfied with the case.  She’s working on it.
*Gebo/Sig
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Call into NAVIENT; everything is on hold until Feb 15th
*Gebo/Sig
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, well behaved, 30min walk.
*mildly cool, overcast, hela stout north wind.
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Call into the Sedgwick County Court for information about obtaining a marriage license.
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Leftover all meat burritos with leftover bens.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Not a horrible night @ work; layout/drill/trim for a 2nd night.  I have no idea what happened.  I worked on a tub of parts with 3 orders of the same dash-number.  The parts I worked on yesterday were gone, but the paperwork was still there.  The parts that WERE there was not my work.  The computer said I signed out 13 parts, but the remaining parts were not indicative of the way I worked them.  Methinks someone took my parts, signed them out as their own, and moved them on to the pin-routers to finish.  My Super was less than pleased.
*worked 9hrs.
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My fiancee brought to my attention I haven't changed the year for this year.  I've been posting 2017 all of 2018.  I can't go back in this blog to make the corrections; well, I COULD but I'm not going to, just know the correction has been made in my notes and will reflect the proper year henceforth. 

​Thank you, baby.

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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 9 hours
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Armanen Rune: Yr:
Havamal 160.
A sixteenth I speak if a maid is reluctant,
To wake her lust and desire;
I change the heart of the delightful woman,
Then to me her wishes turn.
 
Lust/desire, seduction, reluctance, influence, second thoughts, a change of heart, the waxing and waning moon, lunar-like mutability of the feminine essence, the error-rune, conquering resistance through confusion, eventual perfection, Female mysteries, roots of the World Column, the carrier of genetic material, God-woman, femininity, desire, sensual love, passion, perfection, Mother, chaos from which creation emerges, female principle in the Cosmos, the night, death and instinct, anger, falsehood, error and the oppositions found in humankind, mystical union, night, moon, well grounded, roots of Irminsul from which all life springs, woman as the opposite/balance to man, the descending Divine Feminine being.
“Think about the end” (List, 63).
*H3R4
 
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Interpretation: Social interaction (Mannaz) leads to influence (Yr).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep.  What the hela is it with cramps lately?
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée.  She brought to my attention I haven’t changed over the year on my blog.  Change made…jeez
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Breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin and a banana
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Nice comments on my Fb messenger from my newly re-discovered CG buddy.
A bit of conversation with my German brüder
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, noon hour, 30min walk.
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Separated an overflowing recycling area.
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Set up an extra hose in the back yard so watering the magnolia bush is easier.
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 Toby and I to BK for lunch
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15.7hrs of work turned-in for a 9hr shift, and one hour into tomorrow; all on the table shaper.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, bed, 02:30 nighty-night.
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(Ôstarmânôd = Ostara Month)
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Plans: ?????????????????????????
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The Christian myth of the resurrection, an unoriginal idea:
https://listverse.com/2013/03/30/10-resurrected-religious-figures/
http://www.lost-history.com/dying-and-rising-gods.php
April Fool’s Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
http://time.com/4276140/april-fools-day-history/
It’s just too much fun they fall on the same day.
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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: 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: 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: Inner strength (Eihwaz) brings strength (Man).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 8+hrs of sleep with two wake-ups; Toby out and Toby in
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée; marginally better, at least she’s drinking coffee.
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Scrambled eggs with turkey kielbasa and cheese, whole wheat pancakes with sliced banana.
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Bremen 2-1 Frankfurt on FS1/Sling-TV
Mainz 0-0 M’Gladbach on FS1/Sling-TV
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It’s been a good goof-off kinda morning.
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, somewhat stubborn, 30min walk.  Early on the walk I noticed something going-on with my inserts.  They felt like there was a major “wrinkle” on my right on, and a minor “wrinkle” on the left causing some serious pain.  I sat right down in Meeka Park, made the adjustment and carried-on.
*cold, cloudy, stout north wind
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The X-Files, S11 E6 on FX NOW/Sling-TV
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Call in from brother
Message in to my sister’s daughter.  Sister was sleeping.
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Cut-up two cantaloupes that have been ripening all week and enjoyed a huge ole bowl of fruit salad:
Cantaloupe
Apples
Oranges
Blackberries
*YUM!
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Shower
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Okay, now I’m just getting lazy.
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BK for dinner https://locations.bk.com/ks/wichita/418-s-west-st.html
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Dogma http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/ on YouTube; not horrible honey, thank you.
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00:00 nighty-night
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