(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: 8 hrs, 2nd shift
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AM Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com)
Frijastag (great grandparents) David D. Schmidt (1852-1924) and Elisabeth Zülke (apx1856-1932) 
David D. Schmidt
Birth abt 1852 in Russia
Death 19 JUN 1924 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Married 22 February 1876
Elisabeth 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 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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AM 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.
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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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AM Armanen Rune: Ka: 
Havamal 150.
A sixth one is mine, if a man wounds me
With the root of a trunk still with juice;
Then I am unscathed, the man himself is consumed
By the evil with which he threatened me.
 
The world tree, preservation of tribe or race, ancestors/ancestry, loyalty, that which is existing, defense, reversal of fortune, the polarity of the male/female principle in the Universe, opposing energies, earthly love, as executive power of balancing justice, art, capability, artist, genius, being favored, procreation, the child, force, that which is established, World Tree/the Irminsul/the All, power, generation, ability and artfulness, sensuality, higher consciousness, return.
“Your blood, your highest possession” (List, 53).
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Interpretation: Gift (Gebo) leads to being favored (Ka).
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Outcome: The darkened bedroom is working.  I got a good 7hrs of only slightly disturbed sleep.
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Long-Tail and Look-a-Like showed up for breakfast, no sign of Stubby.
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1st breakfast; burrito from frozen
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I let Toby pick the first half of the walk, but once we got onto McCormick St., the rest was MY decision to get in the full one mile.
Huggled with Socks in his house.
Essie with front yard time.
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What is this with an old female friend making almost daily comments on my Fb page?
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Nice morning!
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Paid bills…well hel, there went the nice morning…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Created a step on the backside of a porch post so Stubby could easily get around it; that is, when he finds it.
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Lunch: beer chicken with rice in onion soup mix, and garden salad.
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Several days ago I sent some elm wood to a Fb friend in Alaska for her Rune-making project.  She promised a return gift, and it arrived today!  She sent me some home-made-by-her amber beard balm.  LOVE IT!
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I’m feeling the travel itch.  Winnipeg or the Royal Gorge?  Something new?
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Bundesliga http://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Leipzig 2-1 Augsburg
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Good 1st half of shift; but I am feeling a bit insecure with what I DON’T know.
Good lunch; Poetic Edda
Good 2nd half of shift
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MLS http://www.mlssoccer.com/
Houston 0-2 NYCFC
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Shower, bed, nighty night
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(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: 8 hrs 2nd shift, VA podiatry
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AM Ancestor Meditation: Donarstag (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 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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AM Elder Rune: Uruz (Inv): A weakened position, deprivation, out of sync, deprivation, an impulse towards inaction, a severe lack of foundation, energy at low levels, illness, reduction, 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.
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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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AM 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 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).
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Interpretation: WHAT?
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Outcome: 1st breakfast; burrito from frozen
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OMGs, I actually slept-in until 09:00/9AM!  Gotta get moving!
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My health by the numbers:
Glucose: 108
Weight: 252.2
BP: 137/76
Pulse: 79
*sent in these numbers to my online VA account.
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These beautifully cool mornings are the BEST!
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Toby and I out for a 09:30/9:30AM walk to Meeka Park plus 3/5 of a mile.  Late in the walk, Toby’s refusal to respond to a voice command after 3 efforts put him on the retractable until home.
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2nd breakfast; typical breakfast sandwich.
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I still think it’s hilarious that the VA offers me a free pedicure…YES, a pedicure…every three months because they’ve diagnosed me as a diabetic. 
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BK for lunch
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I accidently took my evening meds early in the afternoon.  This may account for my lightheadedness.
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Huggled with Socks in his house.  He was ready to come outside on such a BEE-U-TI-FULL day!
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1st half of shift; WOO-HOO!  I actually have someone working with me in the shop; well, at least for a couple of days.
I had a bit of concern about the parts I worked yesterday, but they were worked so evidently they were okay.
Good lunch; Poetic Edda
2nd half of shift went well.
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Smart Socks; out of his house as I came home, but was soon ready to go back into his house for the night to get out from the chill.
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Shower, bed by my target time of 01:00, nighty-night.
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(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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Well, it’s a step in the right direction; 6 ½ hours of sleep undisturbed.
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1st check on all fur-kids
*This morning was the first time I willingly fed Look-A-like.  My hope is if he’s better fed he’ll be less aggressive toward Stubby.
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Plans: 8 hrs 2nd shift
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​AM Ancestor Meditation: Wotanstag (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1952) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1952)
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 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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AM 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.
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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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AM 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).
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Interpretation: Harvest (Jera) leads to singing (Laf).
*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
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Outcome: These cooler mornings are amazing.
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1st breakfast; cold cereal.
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Essie in the back yard.
Toby and I out for an enjoyable 1-mile walk.
Huggled with Socks in his house.
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2nd breakfast; typical breakfast sandwich
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Calls into:
Bethany Mennonite Brethren Church
North Freson Mennonite Brethren Church
…in an effort to find information on my great-grandparents on my Father’s side who moved out that way.
*NFMBC gave me what I think will be an EXCELLENT resource:
**American Historical Society of Germans from Russia https://ahsgr.site-ym.com/
**interesting find already.  I found out the original spelling of our family name is RIMER, and was changed to REIMER in 1798
** https://ahsgr.site-ym.com/?page=GermanOrigins
*Jera/Laf right here!
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Lunch; last of the Hamburger Helper Crunchy Taco with a garden salad thrown-in for good measure.
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Essie once again isn’t eating well.
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Good 1st half of shift
Good lunch; Poetic Edda
Good 2nd half of shift; I must be doing something right.  They offered overtime which I accepted for Saturday.  I wasn’t expecting this until AFTER my 90 day probation.
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Shower, bed, nighty-night
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PM God/dess Meditation: Wotan; Alle-Vater God!  Wandering God!  Rune god! Wolf God! Raven god! Wotan!! Husband to Frija, the Alle-Mutter.  Son to Paru and Bezzia, brother to Willo and Wîh; We call out to you, not as slaves or on bended knee, but on our feet and open-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! After a life battle-worn, Wotan, grant us access to our Great Ancestral Hall, where we may feast, drink the glorious mead and be merry with our heroes and our Altmâgâ. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, Wotan, as we honor the Wotan that resides in us all!
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Comments:  last check on all fur-kids
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Alaf Sal Fena!

(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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Essie demanded my attention a few time overnight.
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Okay, I GOTTA find a way to sleep past sunrise!  This is getting ridiculous.  I found an old Kansas City Wizards lap blanket, placed it in front of my west bedroom window.  The south window I can put a pillows in front of that one.  I can partially close the north bedroom door to shield out the sun from the kitchen.  It’s a must; sleep has to improve!
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: 8 hrs 2nd shift
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(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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My health by the numbers:
Glucose: 117
Weight: 252.6
BP: 132/71
Pulse: 82
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: VA lab, work 8 hrs 2nd shift
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(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: GPRF http://www.greatplainsrenfest.com/
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​(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Started a load of laundry
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Plans: LOTS
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AM Ancestor Meditation: (gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite and Medford Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit (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 offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
*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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AM Elder Rune: Othilla (Inv): Problems in relating to home - heritage - spiritual heritage, and ancestors; Family difficulties, difficulties at home, shunning, unbalanced kinship, chaotic home-front, loss of property/land, genetic disconnection, slavery, homelessness, disruption of family ties - race - culture and the environment, racialism, alienated/disconnected with the family of humankind.
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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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AM 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, wisdom, empowerment, propagation of the human race, encompasses both the exoteric and the esoteric concepts of humanity, great gain, acquisition of wisdom, strength, male mysteries, male leadership, 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).
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Interpretation: Disruption of family ties (Othilla) leads to an acquisition of wisdom (Man).
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Outcome: busy overnight with many ups and downs.
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Playfully threw pillows at Toby when he was ready for his walk, but I wasn’t.
*Toby and I out to Meeka Park plus 3/5 of a mile
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Bundesliga http://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Mainz 2-3 Leverkusen
Hamburger 0-1München
Augsburg 1-0 Darmstadt
Frankfurt 3-3 Berlin
M’Gladbach 2-0 Ingolstadt
Bremen 2-1 Wolfsburg  
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Separated recyclables and took them into http://www.recyclewichita.org/  WOW!  That was the quickest trip there ever…LOTS of help.  I didn’t have to do a thing!
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Mowed back yard to the hindmost part
*watermelon break
*hm, a bit of lite-rain.  I’d better hurry.
Finished the back yard
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Pizza Hut for a late lunch
*shit, the clouds keep rolling-in.  If I’m going to make the Ren Fest I’d better hurry.
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Good few hours @ the GPRF http://www.greatplainsrenfest.com/ Of course, the fall fest is always not as well attended as spring, but it’s like someone said, As I have said, it’s not the gate, it’s the family relationships we’ve formed over the years.  A vender with whom I’m well acquainted sold me a really nice baldric.  I got out of there in the “tah-dah” nick of time as I saw some seriously threatening clouds approaching.  I told people I needed to get home for my fur-kids.  I didn’t even make it out of the park when the storm hit. 
*A Ren-Fest family member has a book on Amazon.  I promised him I would purchase his book as soon as I got home.  Whether or not it’s my kind of reading, I ordered it, and I will tell him so tomorrow.
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Of course, all fur-kids were fine.  Socks was in his house.  Essie was safe inside my house.  Toby cane-a-running from his house.
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Dinner: beer bats, red cabbage and vegetables Florentine.
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Law and Order S. V. U.
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Popcorn is popped…
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Aeon Flux http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402022/ on Netflix
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MLS http://www.mlssoccer.com/
Toronto 1-1 Philly
Vancouver 3-3 Colorado
DC 4-1 Orlando
NYRB 1-0 Montréal
Houston 3-1 Portland
Salt Lake 0-0 Dallas
San Jose v Sporting Kansas City
*7th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*42nd min goal san jose
*@ the half, 1-1
*81st min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match
*San Jose 1-2 Sporting Kansas City
*A HUGE road win for the good guys!
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Nighty-night  
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​PM God/dess Meditation: Saga, glorious goddess of history, we greatly honor you; 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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Comments:  last check on all fur-kids
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Alaf Sal Fena!

(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: 8 hrs 2nd shift
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(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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Links about the Autumnal/September Equinox:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/september-equinox.html
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/facts-about-september-equinox.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/autumn-equinox-explained-start-fall-spring-sun-earth-science/
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: 8 hrs 2nd shift
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(Skeidentimânôd = Summer’s end month)
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Plans: 8 hrs 2nd shift
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​AM Ancestor Meditation: Wotanstag (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1952) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1952)
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 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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AM Elder Rune: Teiwaz (Inv): Outside the favor of Ziu; the god of honor, dishonor/chaos, without victory in conflict, injustice, imbalance, mismanagement, failure, unbalanced, dishonesty, naiveté compromised judgments, defeat, warfare without purpose, disengagement with the sacrificial Self, legal dilemma, disorder, cowardice, the inability to fight for what’s right, void of the will to succeed, double standards.
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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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AM Armanen Rune: Ka: 
Havamal 150.
A sixth one is mine, if a man wounds me
With the root of a trunk still with juice;
Then I am unscathed, the man himself is consumed
By the evil with which he threatened me.
 
The world tree, preservation of tribe or race, ancestors/ancestry, loyalty, that which is existing, defense, reversal of fortune, the polarity of the male/female principle in the Universe, opposing energies, earthly love, as executive power of balancing justice, art, capability, artist, genius, being favored, procreation, the child, force, that which is established, World Tree/the Irminsul/the All, power, generation, ability and artfulness, sensuality, higher consciousness, return.
“Your blood, your highest possession” (List, 53).
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Interpretation: chaos (Teiwaz) leads to defense (Ka).
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Outcome: A bit better sleep but will working on 7hrs
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1st breakfast; cold cereal
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9AM; Toby and I out to Meeka Park plus 3/5 of a mile
*warm, breezy
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2nd breakfast; leftover pizza
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Bundesliga http://www.bundesliga.com/en/
(I don’t understand why the mid-week activity)
München 3-0 Berlin
Leverkusen 0-0 Augsburg
Bremen 1-2 Mainz
Leipzig 1-1 M’Gladbach
Schalke 1-3 Köln
(my friend in Kiel Germany calls this “English Week” where they bunch up a lot of games.  In HIS worlds:
“They do that 2-3 times in the season…
That's what they call it when there are matches both at the weekend and during the week.
At some weekends there are no bundles logs matches because of international matches (world cup qualification for example). So they have to do these English weeks to catch up with the schedule”.
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Surprise visit from my bruzzer.  He took time off work for a doc appointment.
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DUMBELL/WEIGHT-LIFTING ROUTINE
Standing, 3 sets of 8, 2/15lbs

• Forearm curls
• Bicep curls
• Overhead triceps extension
• Shoulder press
• Standing shoulder row
• Bent row
• Reverse back-fly
• Half-squats

Bench, 3 sets of 12, 2/15lbs

• Chest press
• Chest fly
• Overhead pull

Plank, 3 sets @ 30secs each
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Huggled with Socks in his house.
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Good first half of shift
Lunch; The Poetic Edda
Good 2nd half of shift
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Goddamn Look-a-Like was so comfy on the sidewalk in Socks’ Princedom.  I let Socks out from his house so he could tend to it.
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I NEED to stay off Fb upon coming home from work.
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Shower bed, nighty-night
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PM God/dess Meditation: Ostara, trustworthy goddess; husband 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!
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Comments:  last check on all fur-kids
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Alaf Sal Fena!