(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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Plans: fur kids, wifey, domestic stuff
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com) (Gravesites @ Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery, Lehigh, Kansas)
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 to Elizabeth Zülke 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: Inguz: Ing-Fro, the god of Ar; prosperity, abundance, sexuality and fridu, gestation, the womb and the tomb, fertility, fruitfulness, peace and plenty, internal growth, personal development, solitude, well-being, nature wisdom, process/manifestation of creativity; wholesome, healthy sexuality, sacrifice for the positive, potential, completion of one stage and progressing to the next, internal/spiritual growth, enhancing male energy.
*A3R6; Aett 3, root 6, Yggdrasil’s root of re-creation
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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: Eh: 
Havamal 162:
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.
 
Dedication, faithfulness, fidelity, common law/legal marriage, warns against frivolous, transient love affairs, the legal contract 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; Halbdutzend 3, root 5, Irminsul’s root of re-creation
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Rune Lesson: In any marriage, there has to be sacrifice on both parts.  Without reciprocated sacrifice, there is an imbalance.  Marriage is all about internal growth.  I read something the other day that said never try to form your mate to your specification, because that only creates a mirror image of you.  Marriage needs to be about freedom of growth.  For as a marriage grows and changes, there is peace and plenty.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
*the only weather that will dive Socks into his house?  RAIN!
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep, two wakeups
*Toby potty/thunderstorm, Toby immediately back in
*Lily using me as a jungle-gym.
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Wifey conversation
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Toby’s 9am medication
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Online chat
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Still rain and thunder
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Made wifey some bacon; there are only a few things food-wise that I can do for her that I know she’ll enjoy.
*sliced fruit
*bacon
*bacon-wrapped asparagus
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A banana + an open faced, 2-egg, breakfast sandwich with pepper-jack cheese, and some snatched bacon, atop whole wheat toast
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Toby’s 12noon meds
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Call into K-State.  Toby has appointments June 24th @ 2:30pm and July 1 @ 2pm.
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Rain stopped
Toby and I out for an early afternoon, perfectly behaved, 3-block roundy.
*overcast, mild/muggy, slight south breeze.
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Comment not for public consumption
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Great Wall for lunch
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Toby’s 2pm meds
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HOLY SHIT!  I had a chair bust out from under me and my head slammed into the top drawer on the dresser in the man cave.  OMGs the blood!  I knocked on wifey’s door a bloody mess.  She helped me tend to the blood.  Even at this point the blood hasn’t completely stopped; hopefully soon.
*from my anatomy class I knew there were all sorts of capillaries running around the skull area, but I have never experienced a wound there.  OMGs THE BLOOD!!!!!!!
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2hrs of Ghost Whisperer on Start TV (OTA); yup, I’ve seen both of them.
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Toby’s 7pm meds were 2hrs. late, but he got them nonetheless.
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Last of the Kroger Meatloaf and last of the garden salad for a very late dinner.
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Toby’s midnight meds
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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12:30am nighty night
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(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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Plans: fur kids, wifey, ?????????????????????????
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Ancestor Meditation: Flags:

1. Holy Roman Empire German/Austria until 1711-1740
2. Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1918
3. US flag 1850 31 stars
4. Oklahoma state flag
5. California state flag

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 to Eva Hiebert 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: Pertho: Dice cup, issues concerning: the lucky roll of the dice, questions of luck, the consideration of Wurt/Urlag (the ordeal of Humankind), the Wurtâ; Urda (that which was), Werdanda (that which is becoming) and Sculd (that which is owed), the realization of hidden potential, interwoven yet independent Wurt, good fellowship and happiness, secrets revealed, the collective consciousness, the Well of Knowledge for true growth.
Conversely:
The presence of negative Wurt, an unlucky roll of the dice, bad luck, secrets remaining secret, delusions, fantasies, megalomania, outside the collective/individual consciousness, out of touch with reality, negative forces set in motion, that which is unknowable, the need to deal with uncertainty, unpleasant contractions of birth pains, secrets remaining secret, take no chances.
*A2R6; Aett 2, root 6, Yggdrasil’s root of destruction
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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 160:
A fourteenth I know, 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, that which is rising, 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; Halbdutzend 3, root 3, Irminsul’s root of re-creation
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Rune Lesson: That unchangeable luck is always with us.  It can be good.  It can be bad.  Coupled with the Man Rune, however, there is no doubt there is strength in my luck today.  There is so much about luck that can be empowering.  There is so much about luck that can equate to Divine wisdom. 
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7hrs of semi-decent sleep.
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Wifey sure was chatty this morning.  I just wasn’t ready for all that.
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A banana and a 2-egg breakfast sandwich with pepper-jack cheese on whole wheat toast.
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Toby’s 9am meds
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Barrett Solar here
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To Air Capital Veterinary to get Toby and Socks’ flea meds.
*Toby has NEVER struggled with me on his flea chew.  Okay, damnit, pill-size chopped it is.
To Walmart to get Toby’s eye-drops refilled
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Toby’s noon meds
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Leftover southwestern beans-n-franks with onions.
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Toby’s 2pm meds
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Call in from K-State to check on Toby and how he’s doing.
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Recycled aluminum cans: $21
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Message into my cousin telling her I won’t be able to make the reunion.  I really am tied to Toby until he can get the cone off and some/most of his meds.
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Call into bank; this fucking BS about have to answer a ONE TIME SECURITY CODE for the last SEVERAL WEEKS is getting a bit old.  No real answer, just that they are working on it across the board.
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Call in from my WONDERFUL favorite person, my niece!
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Kroger meatloaf https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-homestyle-ready-to-cook-in-tray-meatloaf/0001111003487 + a baked potato + a garden salad
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Toby and I out for his first 3-block test walk since his cataract surgery.  It certainly didn’t take him long to get back into the swing of things.  He visited with a couple of neighbors he hasn’t “seen” in months.
*dusk, clear skies, warm. South breeze
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Snuck Socks’ flea med onto him while he was concerned about George.
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Toby’s 9pm meds.
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Dark Shadows on the Decades channel (OTA)
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Toby’s midnight meds
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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12:30am nighty night
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(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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Plans: fur kids, wifey, hopefully pick up Toby from K-State
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983) (Gravesites at Lehigh Mennonite Cemetery).
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married to Mary Goertz 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: Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, sacred protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don’t rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1; Aett 2, root 2, Yggdrasil’s root of destruction
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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 148:
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; Halbdutzend 1, root 3, Irminsul’s root of creation
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Rune Lesson: Admitted bias for Toby
There is the potential for my Vue to be both the sacred enclosure and destructive as well.  Coupled with Thorn’s protective aspect, however, the sacred enclosure remains so that there is safety if I go get Toby later today.  Toby’s change is coming, too, with an AMAZING awakening!
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7hrs of solid sleep with no Lily around…WTF?
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Online chat
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K-State called @ 8:30am.  Toby continues to do well.  There are a couple of things for which they want to hold him a little while longer, BUT THE PLAN IS FOR ME TO GET HIM @ 4PM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Call into bank to transfer funds.
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A 2-gg breakfast sandwich atop whole wheat toast with pepper jack cheese
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Watered the straw-bale garden and baby shrubs in the back yard.
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Wifey conversation
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Out for a noon hour, 30min walk.
*sparsely cloudy/cotton ball clouds, very warm, fairly stout south wind
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 1:30pm on the road to Manhattan!
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Easy drive to K-State in Manhattan, Ks.
I cannot say enough good things about K-State.  Dr. Ewald is amazing to the point that she explained EVERYTHING, and gave me a laminated sheet of Toby’s scheduled prescriptions.  She’s going to be gone for a few weeks, but I’m being handed off to a Dr. Collins, who did Toby’s surgery.
The drive back was a problem.
I must’ve missed a turn off.  Rather than take me back to where I was, the GPS took me thru Abilene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene,_Kansas.  ABILENE!  Pit stop in Durham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham,_Kansas and talked to a couple of really nice ladies who LOVED Toby.  I think Toby was really glad to be home.
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Turkey bologna strips cooked in A-1 steak sauce + veggie tots + fresh pineapple.
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Online chat
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A load of laundry
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Toby’s 11:45pm feeding and insulin
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A bit more of Logan’s Run https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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1am nighty night
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(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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OMGs!  After I closed out yesterday’s journal/blog entry, K-State called to let me know how Toby was doing.  I’m telling you, these people are ABSOLUTELY top notch!
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Plans: fur kids, wifey, Toby into cataract surgery.
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day/Tuesday (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72) (Gravesites at Alexanderwohl Friedhof Cemetery, Goessel, Kansas).
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 to Maria Hildebrand 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
Gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, Goessel, Ks
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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; Aett 2, root 5, Yggdrasil’s root of destruction
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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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Is:  
Havamal 154:
A ninth one I sing, when dangers at sea forces me
To protect my ship from the stormy waves;
The storm I calm down, no matter how billowing the sea,
And I cradle the waves to sleep.
 
Calm in the face of distress, comfort, hypnotic power of the forceful will, course of affairs, Rest, Ego, das Ich, Positivity, activity, personal will, self-domination, self-control, confidence, determination, extension of the Divine center, the upright human being, the awakened Self, influence, personal power, magical power, power to banish evil, unity in the Universe, duration, action in the Cosmos, activity, will, self-domination, influence, personal power, self-discipline, unity in the Universe, duration, magical powers, axis/column/Irminsul of the world, action in the Cosmos, elimination of that which is unnecessary, calm.
“Win power over yourself and you will have power over everything in the spiritual and physical worlds that strive against you” (List, 56).
H2R3; Halbdutzend 2, root 3, Irminsul’s root of destruction
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Rune Lesson: Admitted bias for Toby”
Sure, today is stressful, but Toby is in the hands of the All-Mother, so be calm.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7hrs of semi-solid sleep, and not a fur baby to be found around the bed.
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Wifey conversation
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LOTS of support for Toby on Fb.
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9am, Toby is in for cataract surgery…
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Two scrambled eggs in a wheat tortilla with pepper jack cheese.
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Dr. Ewald at K-State called.  She has finished one eye, but there have been complications.  The lens anchors that keep the lens connected to the eyeball have deteriorated, so she cannot put a lens back into Toby’s left eye.  I gave her permission to go onto the right eye.  I told her I have to give Toby every chance to be as good as he could be.
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Out for a 6-block, late morning, roundy
*very warm, partly cloudy, SSE breeze.
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A Second call in from K-State and the same dilemma in the other eye. Dr. Ewald assures me he'll be able to see, he just won't be able to read a newspaper (LOL). He is now in recovery. The hope is he's able to come home tomorrow.  I’m ready to go get him anytime!
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A triple decker, turkey bologna, double pepper jack cheese on wheat bread+ Tostitos Scoops/salsa + bread-n-butter pickle wedges + watermelon.
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Call into Air Capital Veterinary to let them know how Toby fared.
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Wifey to Family Dollar
Watered all shrubs, straw=bale garden and Agathagart
*nix on Agathagart.  It’s too damned windy.
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I just called to check on Toby. He's quite the hit. He's doing well; hopefully well enough to come home tomorrow.  As soon as they call to say I can come get him I’m on the road!
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WOW!  Extraction https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8936646/ on Netflix
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Ghost Whisperer S2 Es14and15 on Hulu; yup, I’ve seen ‘em both.
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Online chat.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Midnight nighty night
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Friedhof Cemetery, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite Cemetery respectively)
Saturday/Saturn’s Day, Tag der Fruchtbarkeit (UPG) Day of Fertility/Saturday (UPG) (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 to Agatha Dirksen 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: Pertho: Dice cup, issues concerning: the lucky roll of the dice, questions of luck, the consideration of Wurt/Urlag (the ordeal of Humankind), the Wurtâ; Urda (that which was), Werdanda (that which is becoming) and Sculd (that which is owed), the realization of hidden potential, interwoven yet independent Wurt, good fellowship and happiness, secrets revealed, the collective consciousness, the Well of Knowledge for true growth.
Conversely:
The presence of negative Wurt, an unlucky roll of the dice, bad luck, secrets remaining secret, delusions, fantasies, megalomania, outside the collective/individual consciousness, out of touch with reality, negative forces set in motion, that which is unknowable, the need to deal with uncertainty, unpleasant contractions of birth pains, secrets remaining secret, take no chances.
*A2R6; Aett 2, root 6, Yggdrasil’s root of destruction
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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: Rit: 
Havamal 150:
That I know as the fifth, should an enemy’s
Arrow come flying into the throng;
As bright as it might clash, I stem its power
Once I firmly fix my eye on it.
 
Incoming challenges, the exalted, the strength of Will, external power/strength squelched, fixation, attack squelched, introspective awareness, that which is passing, council, right, wheel, movement, rhythm, law, correctness, judgment, victory over the lower ego, holding, right order, the judge, advice, salvation, money, original law, that which flows away, religious feeling, ritual action/primal laws, orderliness in the world, the ritual, primal law/Urlag, things that are done correctly, spiritual feeling, ritual action, journey, Divine law, All justice, Rune of the cosmic rhythm of the worlds, wheels, personal empowerment.
“I am my rod (right), this rod (right) is indestructible, therefore, I am myself indestructible, because I am my rod (right)” (List, 53).
*H1R5; Halbdutzend 1, root 5, Irminsul’s root of creation
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Rune Lesson: Luck, that ever present, unchanging, sold, waving loom of life, is what prepares us for incoming challenges.  Good, bad, or indifferent, our personal luck determines how we respond to life in general.  Our luck gives us the strength of will to overcome whatever life has placed before us.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7 ½ hrs. of sleep, one wakeup, and Lily at my feet.
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 253
Glucose: 113
BP: 129/79
Pulse: 76
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Wifey conversation
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Breakfast completely from frozen, because I just didn’t feel like doing the prep work.
*Belgian waffle
*two burritos
*hashbrown patty
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga
Friday
Hoffenheim 0:2 Leipzig
Today
Wolfsburg 2:2 Freiburg
Düsseldorf v Borussia Dortmund  
*@ the half, 0:0
*90th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match
*Düsseldorf 0:1 Borussia Dortmund
*WHEW!
H. Berlin 1:4 Frankfurt
Köln 1:2 U. Berlin
Paderborn 1:5 Bremen  
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Well hela, the one-hour, $50 oil change turned into an unexpected, four-hour, $1100 ordeal.  I told them to give it a once over and they sure did.  They found some necessary front-end work that was causing excessive wear on my tires, SO:
*oil change
*front end work
*2 new tires
*$1100+
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Toby’s 3:30pm feeding, insulin, and eye-drops
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Last of the Taquitos for a snack
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BK for dinner
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Walmart Neighborhood Market
Dillons
Dillons petrol
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Watered the straw-bale garden and backyard baby shrubs
Watered frontyard shrubs
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Exhausted
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Ghost Whisperer S2 Es 12 and 13; the first one I’ve seen, the 2nd one, not sure.
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1:30am Toby’s feeding, insulin and eye-drops.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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2am nighty night
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(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
 
Is today the day I get my furlough phone call?
 
Plans: fur kids, wifey, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com) (Gravesites @ Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery, Lehigh, Kansas)
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 to Elizabeth Zülke 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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Armanen Rune: Gibor: 
Havamal 163:
An eighteenth I learned, yet I would never
Let a woman or maid know it,
For everyone knows what’s best for himself-
This leads me to the conclusion of the songs-
The one it shall be then, that lies in my arms
As betrothed wife and as sister.
 
The scald, awakening, passion, mystery, secrets kept, the end, comprehension of the diving from below upward; from humanity outward, secrecy, gift/giver, gift of life, that which is best for the individual, fulfillment, sacred marriage, being ONE with the sister soul, protection against evil forces, being/seeing the Divine, the cosmic consciousness and the divine principle, two forces having a singular origin, the spiritual ego, death-life cycle, protection against evil forces, union of the gods and the World, the uninterrupted chain in the cycle of eternal returns, the Creator and the Created, the deepest mysteries of the Universe, the end.
“Man, be one with God” (List, 67).
*H3R6; Halbdutzend 3, root 6, Irminsul’s root of re-creation
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Rune Lesson: Movement is essential in life.  We move from one life event to another.  Nothing is static.  With every movement comes the possibility of an awakening.  We move from mystery to mystery.  Eventually, we move to the end, the ultimate awakening!
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: Just shy of 8hrs of sleep, one wakeup, with Toby at my bedside. Lily at the ready, and Jasmine waiting for me at the ancestors’ table.
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10am Toby’s eye drops
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Toby and I out for a late morning, perfectly behaved, 3-block roundy
*sparsely clouding, very warm, south breeze
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Watered the baby shrubs, the straw-bale garden and Agathagart
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Toby’s 12:45 feeding and insulin
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Yup, got the furlough call, BUT I go back to work ON MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!
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1:30pm, Toby’s eye-drops
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Lightly pan-fried chicken atop teriyaki noodles with fresh chopped onions and veggies + ice cream
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This is a peculiar movie https://moviestvnetwork.com/movies/1302 on the MOVIES TV Network (OTA).  I didn’t realize Arsenic and Old Lace would be so…different.
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1hr at work, nothing happening…came home on an LWOP (leave without pay).  WTF, I’m off for 3-weeks anyway.  Not a big deal.
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Stopped in at Auto Smart South AND West.  Will take my Vue in for an oil change @ Auto Smart West as soon as possible tomorrow.
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5:30pm Toby’s eye-drops
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 Watered the straw-bale garden and Agathagart
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Ghost Whisperer S2 Es 10 and 11; yup, I’ve seen both of them
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Toby’s midnight feeding, insulin and eye-drops
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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12:30am nighty night
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(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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Plans: fur kids, wifey, Air Cap Vet, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Flags:

1. Holy Roman Empire German/Austria until 1711-1740
2. Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1918
3. US flag 1850 31 stars
4. Oklahoma state flag
5. California state flag

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 to Eva Hiebert 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: Kenaz: The torch, Divine wisdom, sexuality, light, shaping, fabrication or fashioning of primordial material, the hearth fire, brightly burning, knowledge, illumination, intellect, divine inspiration under control of human craft, creation, clarification, knowledge/inspiration from within, intuition, Self-awareness, creativity and transformation, clarity of thought, the application of the Divine.
Conversely:
Ulcer, a dimly burning torch, darkness, choosing to remain in the dark, a lack of Divine wisdom, lack of creativity, a self-imposed cocoon, the inability to shape the basics of life, pig ignorance, arrogance, inability to transform, uniformed, disease, decay, ambiguous thought processes, obscure thought processes, dark influences, cruel sexuality, uncontrollable human craft processes.
*A1R6; Aett 1, root 6, Yggdrasil’s root of creation
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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 156:
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; Halbdutzend 2, root 5, Irminsul’s root of destruction
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Rune Lesson: Divine wisdom is not easily obtained.  Wodan sacrificed so much for HIS wisdom. Wodan’s wisdom brought him success as All Father.  Wodan’s success can be OUR success, too.  Of course, we’ll never be as wise as All Father, but his example can be our success.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7 1/2hrs of sleep, one hela groggy wakeup, and Lily on my head…LOLOLOL!
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Wifey conversation
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A banana + a 2-egg open faced sandwich atop pepper jack cheese and whole wheat toast
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9am Toby’s eye-drops
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Power outage
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To Air Capital Veterinary for Toby’s allergy meds
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Toby and I out for a late morning, perfectly behaved, 2-block roundy
*sparsely cloudy, mildly warm, fairly stout south wind
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Watered the straw-bale garden and shrubbery
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Power restored
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PH for lunch
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Call into Toby’s previous guardian to tell him about Toby’s surgery.
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2pm Toby’s eye-drops
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Wifey said she gave Toby his eye-drops.
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I’ve had it with this asshole at work and I told my manager so.  He said I needed to be more specific.  So I was.  He said he’d talk to him.
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Toby’s 1am feeding, insulin and eye-drops
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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A small load of laundry
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A mouse?  There really was still a mouse in this house?  Someone really flushed out and killed a mouse?  Jasmine?  Lily?  It used to be the mouse killing team of Essie and Toby.  Essie would flush it out and Toby would eat it.  I don’t think I have ever seen the mutilated cadaver of a mouse.
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2am nighty night
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(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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Plans: same ole, Jarl of Hammerstorm Portland Oregon here.
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983) (Gravesites at Lehigh Mennonite Cemetery).
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married to Mary Goertz 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: 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; Aett 1, root 7, Yggdrasil’s root of creation
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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 157:
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
3rd Halbdutzend (3rd half-dozen), Irminsul’s root of re-creation
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Rune Lesson: What gift is greater than that of renewal?  What result of sacrifice is greater than that of rising from the ashes?  Gifting renews and settles friendship.  Sacrifice is necessary if we want to rise again.  Our contracts thru gifting renews our relationships with others.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep, one wakeup, and Lily all over me!
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Toby’s 9am eye-drops
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Spent considerable to online trying to get into the VA’s redesigned website to pay my bill.  So far unsuccessful.
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Wifey conversation
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Lite housekeeping.
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A banana + a 2-egg breakfast burrito with pepper jack cheese in a wheat tortilla
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A bit of self-realized Rune work.
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Toby and I out for a late afternoon, somewhat stubborn, 3-block roundy
*sunny, mild, gusty NNW wind
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Jarl of Portland Oregon here; greeted, show the property, leaving to wifey to entertain.
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Finished Rune work.  I’ve had both Elder and Armanen Rune systems divided into 3 roots; creation, destruction and re-creation.  I’ve indicated that thus: A1R1, or H1R1, but have never continued this in my postings.  Tat’s is now changed thus: A1R1, Aett1, root 1, Yggdrasil’s root of creation, or, H1R1, Halbdutzend 1 root 1, Irminsul’s root of re-creation.  It’s a UPG that has worked well for me.
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Toby’s 1pm feeding, insulin and eye-drops
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One of my favorite movies of all time, Jeremiah Johnson https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068762/ is on Movies TV Network https://moviestvnetwork.com/
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Pizza from frozen + a garden salad + ice cream
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WOW!  Work was a mixed bag
*we were told of an additional upcoming furlough.  So, now there are going to be two calls coming this week.
1. for those who have been expecting layoff for some time, that call comes Thursday.
2. Friday is an additional call for those who are going to be placed on three-week furlough.  That will probably be me.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0PIpZLp1/spirit-aerosystems-furloughing-hourly-wichita-employees-working-on-the-737?s=oldSite&ss=a1
*I passed my CPR practicum easily.  Now all I have to do is find the certificate from the Red Cross.  The leaders of the class are going to tell me how to do it.
*I had to work with that same guy who left me alone on that machine and with an unfamiliar situation.  At first it bothered me that he was treating me like shit.  After all, HE was the one at fault for my failure.  He told me a while back, as long as I was trying, he had no fault with me.  When I tried and failed ON HIS MACHINE, now I’m the bad guy?  No, he should have never left me alone.  I almost had a discussion with my manager, but figured it would do no good.
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Dillons petrol
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Ghost Whisperer S2 E9 on Hulu; yup, I’ve seen it.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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2am nighty night
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​God/dess Meditation: (alternate Wodanstag) 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!

(Brachmânôd = Fallow Month)
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Plans: same ole, same ole
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day/Tuesday (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72) (Gravesites at Alexanderwohl Friedhof Cemetery, Goessel, Kansas).
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 to Maria Hildebrand 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
Gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, Goessel, Ks
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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:  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, financial security, good financial management, 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, financial insecurity, improper financial management, 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: Sig: 
Havamal 156:
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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Rune Lesson: If one has wealth, or the ability to manage/maintain wealth, THAT is a direct path to luck and happiness.  Of course, one can’t BUY happiness, but it sure makes life A LOT easier. To see one’s generous status in life is definitely brings blessings from above.  OR, to see Fehu as a beginning, that could be a pathway to upcoming success.
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1st check on all fur-kids: food, water, litterboxes, shelter.
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Outcome: It took a while to get to sleep last night.  Big toe pain was pulsating.
*7hrs of sleep, 2 wakeups, and Lily all over me.
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Wifey conversation
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A banana and a breakfast sandwich
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Toby’s eye-drops
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, late morning/noon hour 3-block roundy.
*sunny, very warm, gusty south wind.
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Call into VA because my FSA sucks
Call into my FSA account.  Somehow, $119 disappeared
Call back into the VA because sucks, too.
ARGH!  I HATE BUREAUCRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Toby’s 1:30pm feeding and insulin
*eyedrops
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Hamburger Helper with fresh onions and veggies added + ice cream
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JsFnChst!  I fucked up at work.  I’m not even going to try to explain what happened.  I felt like shit for it.  As I was talking to my manager about Toby, he mentioned he heard about my “near miss”.  He also said my lead man said it had happened to him, too.  Since this is the second time, my manager is going to try to come up with a solution, and he might’ve.  He’s thinking about a shadow box that would have every bolt needed for this particular part, so that one could see of all bolts were accounted-for.
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Wifey said she gave Toby his eye-drops circa 5:30pm
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The remnants Cristobal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Cristobal_(2020) are definitely here:
*gusty south wind has turned coming from the north.
*much cooler; 55deg on the car thermometer
*lite rain
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A small load of laundry
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Toby’s 1:30am feeding, insulin, and eye-drops
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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2am nighty night
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