(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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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 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: Naudiz: The Rune of Need (whether mortal, emotional, spiritual), a Wurtâ Rune, forced friction, a stress indicator, opportunity for change, urgency, a generating force for the greater good, friction, transformation, resistance leading to strength, perseverance to endure, eventual peace within the Self, accept the unchangeable, an evolutionary change toward a more holistic state, Fate.
*A2R2
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ur:
Havamal 147:
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, witches/shamans/doctors, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
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Interpretation: Stress (Naudiz) brings discernment (Ur).
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1st check on all fur-kids.  Toby camped out all night.
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Outcome: 6 ½ hours of sleep with three wake-ups.
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Breakfast sandwich and a banana.
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I think work went better.  Hand-form and the bag press were out of work before 09:00.  I tired to show some initiative by watching the hot-joggle machine, but evidently that wasn’t the thing to do, but all worked out for the best.  I was taken to the flat-patter duplicator and ran a couple of orders.  Then I had to re-work some parts I did in hand-forming because I wasn’t told about comparing flanges to make sure they were all done the same.  FINALLY, I was given something with which I was familiar that worked on an ATT (applied tool template) and was able to show my lead-man why I knew I was working the right ATT with the right parts.  The problem came when I accidently threw a part into the scrap bin which made the order short.  I scoured the shop several times looking for that damned part.  I KNOW I searched the scrap metal bin several times.  Just before time to go home, IT SURFACED!  As is said in the 13th Warrior, “Luck often enough will save a man, if his courage holds”.  WHEW!
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Toby and I out for a better controlled, better behaved because I made sure it was so, 30min walk.
*partly/mostly cloudy, cool, no breeze.
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Bathed Toby.
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My wife craved a burger a cut above the usual.  TJ’s Burger House it is.  She was happy with it, but was hoping for a toasted bun.  We’ll know better next time.  That was heluvalotta food.
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From the look of the weather reports, it may be about time to cover the a/c units for the winter.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, 21:30 nighty-night.  I get to sleep with my wife.
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​(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Leif Erikson Day
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=75223
http://time.com/5414518/columbus-day-leif-erikson-day/
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/leif-erikson-day
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Plans: work 8hrs, my love my wife.
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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 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: Sowulo: The Sun, Sunna, a lightning bolt, victory, success, feminine life force, lighting the way to new ideas, vitality, confidence, action, wholeness, optimism, the clear light of day, can be a destructive lightening flash (clearing), the will to victory, life purpose, cosmic energies effecting life, appearance of a guiding principle, guidance in journeying, spiritual guidance, leadership.
*A2R8
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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.
 
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: Confidence (Sowulo) brings lasting love (Eh).
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1st check on all fur-kids.  With the rain stopped, Socks was SO ready to ZOOM out of his house.
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Outcome: 7 hrs. of shitty sleep, but oh, no time to stay in bed.  I gotta get moving to FUCKING 1st shift work.  I suppose it’ll get better somewhere along the way.
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It was a better day at work.  On the one hand, I think the guy training me in hand-forming is going to be a pain in the ass.  On the other hand, the guy on the bag press will be much more tolerant.  Still, I’m having mixed emotions about this in-line promotion.
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Took Toby out for a 30min walk.  I should’ve known, but wasn’t prepared for all the distractions.  Toby behaved as well as could’ve been expected.
*rain-cooled, cloudy, no breeze.
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Leftover meat sauce with freshly cooked wheat pasta for ME; Taco Bell for my wife; well, she DID buy me a $1 burrito.
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Here is another reason why I prefer 2nd shift.  2nd shift I can work, come home exhausted and be in bed within a couple of hours.  1st shift, I come home and have to be tired for 6hrs before I can go to bed.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  All fur-kids under shelter.
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Shower, 21:30 nighty-night.  I get to sleep with my wife.
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: start new position @ work, my love my wife.
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)], Beth Ann Reimer/Hinkle [(sister) (1956-12018)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963)
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; complications from M.S.
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; heart attack.
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: Uruz: The Auroch beast, the primal instinct, life force, survival, endurance, the ability of action, creation taking shape, expansion, tenacity, vital strength, instinct of survival, stability, raw physical power, taking risks, stick-to-itiveness, foundation, a stabilizing effect, moral strength, healing, good health, rejuvenation, energy levels, rage, health and energy, primal drizzle.
Conversely:
A weakened position, deprivation, out of sync, an impulse towards inaction, a severe lack of foundation, energy at low levels, illness, reduction, instability, elasticity, uncontrolled rage, without the will to survive, misdirected force, taking no risks at this time, weakness; either physical or emotional, illness, the inability to overcome obstacles.
*A1R2
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ur:
Havamal 147:
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, witches/shamans/doctors, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
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Interpretation: Stability (Uruz) brings discernment (Ur).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: rough night, too many ups and downs.
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Breakfast sandwich.
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I made it to work well enough.  I am NOT impressed with my new position.  It started out fine, but almost went to shit.  I actually pressed some parts on a machine and started hand-forming them.  After lunch (I can actually call it lunch now), we were told our 60-day training is now 30 days.  SO, this guy and I are going to be able to only learn HALF of what we need, then help each other out when we go back to 2nd.  SHITTY WAY TO DO THINGS!  The other guy will stay on the machines while I go to the bag press, hand-forming and layout.  I spent the rest of the day bored in hand-forming.  Well, at least I survived.
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RAIN…more and lots of rain!
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My lovely wife greeted me on the porch when I came home.
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My wife made a WONDERFUL dinner: spaghetti, homemade meat sauce, sourdough garlic toast, white wine!!
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Shower
Let me share with you my oral hygiene:
Electric toothbrush 2-min
Floss
Waterpik
Plaque rinse
I am OBSESSED with good oral hygiene.
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Seattle v Houston TBD
https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/schedule/2018-10-08
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Moderate rain continues https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/kansas/weather-radar-24hr
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A lot of time spent on Facebook simply because nothing else is going on.
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TWICE I’ve been out to check on Socks to give him a chance to come outside.  Yeah, it’s still raining, but he needs to know he had the chance.
*Socks is not getting the option to come out.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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21:30 nighty-night.  I get to sleep with my wife.
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: domestic stuff
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas) (Gravesites at Alexanderwohl Friedhof Cemetery, 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: Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don't rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: 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, 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
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Interpretation: Inner protection (Hagalaz) brings an awakening (Gibor).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with two wake-ups; Toby out/in.
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Wife still hurts a bit this morning, but a bit better.
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Three homemade breakfast burritos.
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Toby and I out for a mid-morning, fairly well behaved, 30min walk.  I’m not sure who this guy was talking to.  Toby was snarfing up French-fries the guy had in his yard.  What else was Toby supposed to do?  I was waiting for Toby to finish when this guy comes to the door saying “move along”.  Now I know who’s going to shit on future walks regardless.
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Two loads of laundry
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
Besides the BVB/Augsburg match, other important scores this week:
*München 0:3 M’Gladbach
*Leipzig 6:0 Nürnberg
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I had a WONDERFUL visit @ a McDs with the Jarl of Hammerstorm.  We both agreed this needs to be a more frequent meeting.
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Another load of laundry
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
DC 2:1 Chicago
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Kwik Shop
Dillons
Dillons petrol
Credit Union ATM for my wife.
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RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cleaned house a bit.
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Medication run for my wife.
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Chicken patties from frozen, fresh steamed cabbage, tomato slices for dinner.
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My wife’s back is still bothering her.  I am certainly babying her so she can watch her zombie show.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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21:45 nighty-night…I’m in bed BEFORE my wife!
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: LOTS!
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Friedhof Cemetery, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite Cemetery respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Ehwaz: Horse, the special, controlled relationship between a rider and a horse, absolute trust, taking control of relationships and with higher-powers, instinct, intuition, progress, working in tandem with another, toward a single goal, control of a situation, adaptability, two halves that make-up the whole, following one’s instincts, teamwork, trust, loyalty, partnership, cooperation.
Conversely:
The relationship of a horse and rider out of control, disharmony, quarrelsome tendencies, mistrust, betrayal, stranded, indecisiveness, false friends/unfriendliness, treachery, change and/or movement for the worse, loss, break-up of a relationship, disruption of relationships, reluctant to trust, friendless, blockage, treachery, indecision, an enemy comes to the gate.
*A3R3
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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​Armanen Rune: Ka:
Havamal 151:
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.
 
Imperviousness, a reversal of fortune, the world tree, preservation of tribe or race, ancestors/ancestry, loyalty, that which is existing, defense, 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).
*H1R6
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Interpretation: Absolute trust (Ehwaz) brings imperviousness (Ka).
*okay…
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with one wake up @ a 5am alarm.
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My health by the numbers…
Weight: 255
Glucose: 144
BP: 133/77
Pulse: 81
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So, the experiment worked.  I successfully woke up and was fairly functional. Tomorrow is an actual dry run to see what it will be like to get ready for work.
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3-eggs sunny side up with ruined potatoes and kielbasa sausage mixture for breakfast.
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/matchday/2018-2019/
BVB v Augsburg on FS2/Sling-TV
*22nd min tor/goal Augsburg
*@ the half BVB 0:1 Augsburg
*62nd min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*71st min tor/goal Augsburg
*80th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*84th min TOR/GOAL BVB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*87th min tor/goal Augsburg
*90+6 TOR/GOAL BVB!  OMGs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match BVB 4:3 Augsburg
*BVB WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/borussia-dortmund-augsburg-live-line-ups-stats-pulisic-reus-sancho-alcacer-fantasy-514014.jsp
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Toby and I out for a late morning, perfektly behaved, 30min walk.
(cool, cloudy, nice north breeze.
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 Simply put, the ICT Bloktoberfest https://www.facebook.com/events/458565077885261/?event_time_id=458565091218593 was a bust!
*German Food Truck
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Kavanaugh confirmed: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html
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Block party @ the neighborhood church.
(hotdog, bowl of chili, soda)
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Hammerstorm @ the Breadbasket in Newton.
*German food buffet
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MLS https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Sporting KC v LA
*25th min goal la
*@ the half SKC 0:1 LA
*83rd min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*It’s raining heavily in KC
*end of match 1:1
*SKC makes the playoffs for the 8th year in a row!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other scores around the MLS https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/schedule/2018-10-06
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Sinuses are junk
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My wife has developed some kind of painful spasm in her back.  She says it makes for labored breathing.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  All fur kids are under shelter.
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22:00 nighty night.  I get to sleep with my wife.
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: my love my wife, home early from work.
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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.
 
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: Fertility (Inguz) brings fulfillment (Eh).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with two wake-ups.
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Good morning greeting with my wife in her office.
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Watched the disappointment the Kavanaugh vote; 49/51
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-nomination-advances-to-final-vote-in-senate.html
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Breakfast from frozen.
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Toby and I out for a late morning, well behaved, 30min walk.
*partly cloudy, mildly warm, stout south breeze.
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McDs for lunch, treat from my wife.
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For the 4 ½ hrs spent @ work I turned in a goodly amount of time.  Just prior to the dinner break, my Super trusted me enough to take my tool bag to my new work place over in IPB2 come Monday.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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22:00 an attempt to sleep, and attempt to test the alarm on my flip phone set @ 05:00.
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: my love my wife, work 8hrs.
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Ancestor Meditation: Flags:

1. Holy Roman Empire Prussia 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 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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Armanen Rune: Not: 
Havamal 153:
An eighth is mine, to all the Folk
Useful to know in their suffering;
Where hatred rises-up between man and man,
This I can settle fast.
 
Distress, suffering, compulsion of fate, separation, confrontation, strife settled, understanding suffering, settled calm, mind over matter, necessity of fate, misery and death, change of luck as necessity, decision of the Wurtâ, Wurt/Urlag paid-for, cause-effect relations, capability to restructure Wurt/Urlag, That which cannot be averted, the Ur-law that is active in every creature, stress, karmic debt, karmic need, but with outlook for change of karma, banishing ill fortune by means of accepting karma and karmic law, Skuld, Divine justice that balances.
“Use your fate, do not strive against it” (List, 55).
*H2R2
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Interpretation: Home/heritage (Othilla) brings confrontation (Not).
*gods, I sure hope…not.
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep with only one wake-up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good morning conversation with my wife.
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Breakfast sandwich
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It’s so nice to have a wife who actually, actively participates in the budget.  Thank you, honey.
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Bank
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Toby and I out for a late morning, perfektly behaved, 30min walk.
*WONDERFULLY cool, cloudy, NNE breeze.
*enough for a lite-jacket with gloves.
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Put out a few Halloween decorations.  My wife has a couple.  We’ll see what she wants to do with hers.
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Okay, it’s National Taco Day https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/national-taco-day-deals-2018-free-tacos.  I considered Taco Bell, but when I stopped into McDs for a better deal on drinks to get tacos after, it’s that godsdamned triple cheese burger @ McDs…OMGs…fuck tacos. Coke for my wife.
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I ran SHFs (Shaper Holding Fixtures) all night at work which means not a lot of time turned in.  The last SHF order was with 6 large parts ($900ea).  I came damned close to scrapping 2 of them.  It took a group effort, but they were saved.  Then I noticed the brake guy brought over my bread-n-butter parts #1 AND #2 shortly after 11pm.  By the gods I sure wasn’t going to leave both of them, so I scarfed-up the one with 460min, and was able to get that time in about 30min.  It was a wild finish to frustrating shift.
*Othilla/Not
*drizzle/fog on the way home.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, 02:00, nighty-night.  NOW I get to sleep with my wife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: my love my wife, work 8hrs.
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983) (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 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: Raido: Wheel, horse transportation, riding, issues concerning: ordered/rhythmic movement, a journey, the journey of life, travel, seek wise counsel, spiritual quest, the law of the cosmic right, freedom and moral responsibility of the Self, ordered change, planning, ethical conduct, personal discipline, to oversee one’s own journey in life, the proper course of faring, progress, perspective.
Conversely:
Spinning one’s wheels, lack of movement, unwise counsel, a breakdown in (divine) order, restlessness, make no travel plans, upsetting the cart, wrong action and disorder, the opposite of that which is right, off the proper course, slow motion, vehicular failure, without a sense of purpose, personal irresponsibility, a failed or disappointing journey, void of progress or proper perspective.
*A1R5
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Fa: 
Havamal 146:
The first one promises to help generously
In sorrow, sickness and pain;
In eternal change, man goes forth
From death to new creation.
 
Generous help, luck, eternal change, forward motion, binding, life/death/life, new creation, property, to grow, to wander, to destroy, to shred, guidance, Father, potential change reflected in a beginning; preface of that which is becoming, being and passing away; procreation, creative father principle, Alle-Vater principle.  primal Fire, the power of spirit and change as well as the power of creativity, the Divine Masculine Principle, success, pure, generated fire that acts creatively in love, will that spares manifestation down to the material levels, necessity of change.
“Generate your luck and you will have it” (List, 49).
*H1R1
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Interpretation: Movement (Raido) brings generous help (Fa).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: I REALLY thought the clock said 09:30 so I hopped out of bed.  WTF?  08:30?  Scheisse!
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Brief good morning conversation with my wife.
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Breakfast sandwich.
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Energy @ low levels.   If I want any help (Fa) I need to keep moving (Raido).
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Toby and I out for a late morning, well behaved, 3-block roundy.
*partly cloudy, warm, hela stout south wind.
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Lunch @ the German Food Truck.  It was featured as one of the two food trucks today for food truck week @ KAKE-TV https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=let%27m%20eat%20br%C3%A4ts
QT; Sprite for my wife.
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What an odd night at work:

1. A 200lb SHF, but only two parts.
2. Shaped and radiused ¼” extrusion, but only two parts.
3. Two orders, same part number, different dash number.  The eight-part order gave me 68min.  The seven-part order gave me 26 min.  AH, the stupidity of their time allotments.

Rain on the way home.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Wife is again sleeping in her office.  She must not be well.
Shower, 02:00 nighty-night, looks like I’m not sleeping with my wife.
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: my love my wife, work 8hrs.
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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 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: Ehwaz: Horse, the special, controlled relationship between a rider and a horse, absolute trust, taking control of relationships and with higher-powers, instinct, intuition, progress, working in tandem with another, toward a single goal, control of a situation, adaptability, two halves that make-up the whole, following one’s instincts, teamwork, trust, loyalty, partnership, cooperation.
Conversely:
The relationship of a horse and rider out of control, disharmony, quarrelsome tendencies, mistrust, betrayal, stranded, indecisiveness, false friends/unfriendliness, treachery, change and/or movement for the worse, loss, break-up of a relationship, disruption of relationships, reluctant to trust, friendless, blockage, treachery, indecision, an enemy comes to the gate.
*A3R3
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ur:
Havamal 147:
Another I name, that all need to have
Who officiate as curing healers;
Know yourself, and you will know the world,
And learn to discern between evil and its causes.
 
Self-knowledge/awareness, all-knowing, discernment, witches/shamans/doctors, the primordial, eternity, primal fire, primal light, primal, primal bull, recognize the cause of an event, healing. that which is grasped or permanent, medical help, the healing powers of medical drugs, nurturing at the original basis, original cause, origin, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, contact with the transcendent, contact with the dead, life after mortal death, Mother-God, Creative Mother Principle, a physician’s rune and represents resurrection, eternity, and continuity, root of all material and cosmic phenomena, root of eternity, causality; the origin of time, cause and effect in the eternal power of becoming.
“Know yourself, then you will know all” (List 50).
*H1R2
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Interpretation: Control (Ehwaz) brings discernment (Ur).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: almost 7hrs of sleep with only one wake-up; well, besides the two times Essie demanded attention.
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Brief good morning conversation with my wife.  She’s still not well.
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Breakfast sandwich.
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Toby and I out for a late morning, fairly well behaved, 30min walk.
*warm, sunny/a few high clouds, nice south breeze.
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Just mindlessly scrolling around on Facebook.
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Hodgepodge for lunch:
Leftover brät and brussels sprouts,
Grilled ham-n-cheese sandwich.
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Call into the Patient Advocate with the VA to being conversation about what I need in Medicare to satisfy the VA.  I don’t want to spend too much or too little.  Some guy took my info for her response.
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Call in from brother; his cataract surgery went well.
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Not a horrible night at work.  I simply need to get away from my supervisor.  IMO, he’s a racist pig.  He obviously treats other black differently than he treats whites, to the point of preferential treatment.
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After work I tooled around the parking lot in front of what I perceive to be IPB2 where I am to report 7am on Monday.  I tried to ask a few people but for some reason they were oblivious to what I was asking them.  Spotting a security guard, she confirmed I was in front of IPB2.  Now all I have to do is figure out the inside and where to clock-in once there.
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My wife is once again sleeping in her office as she still doesn’t feel well.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower, 02:00 nighty-night, sleeping alone again tonight.
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(Gelomânôd = Yellow Month)
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Plans: busy day, my love my wife, work 8hrs.
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)], Beth Ann Reimer/Hinkle [(sister) (1956-12018)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963)
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; complications from M.S.
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA; heart attack.
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don't rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Os: 
Havamal 149:
The fourth one I know, when a foe has tied up
My arms and hands;
The fetters fall from my leg, when I chant that song,
And off my hands the ropes come.
 
Freedom from bondage, the power of speech/song, mouth, arising, ashes, that which is offered, Wodanic energies, leadership, mouth, speech, the effort to convince, deed following the word, the Divine Breath, kingship, discussion, idea of that which is given/evolving, the spiritual power that is gained through speech, it is the breath of the world, its voice, strength that a person needs to rise-up in power, freedom from the bondage of the material world.
“Your spiritual force makes you free” (List, 51).
*H1R4
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Interpretation: Change (Hagalaz) brings freedom (Os).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: WOW!  Eight hours of sleep with only one wake-up.
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Wife is in her office with a fever and nursing kitties.
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Put away Ren Fair things
Put vinyl lining into trash…LONG overdue.
Started wash
Made Raspberry bars since I forgot to get break-treats for work.
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Okay, at the Ren Fair I purchased:
*soap from a good friend
*a badly needed belt
*Thor’s Hammer hat from a new friend.
*commissioned a throwing ax for my wife from Hammerstorm.
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Two loads of laundry.
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Cold cereal with a banana and wheat toast with strawberry jelly.
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Toby and I out for a late morning, well behaved, 30min walk.
*mildly warm, partly/mostly cloudy, fairly stout south wind.
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Separated recyclables.
2 more loads of laundry.
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It looks like I got caught-up on the domestic stuff I couldn’t do over the weekend because of the GPRF.
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Socks, Toby and Essie got their flea treatments.
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PH for me for lunch, plus a garden salad.
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My wife is REALLY down for the count.
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It was a mixed bag at work.  I worked an SHF order that took a while.  At least there were several steps to sign out to justify it.  After that, an order of simple extrusion that gave me 249 min…nice.
*well shit, starting Monday, it looks like I have to go on 1st shift for a while for my new position…smh.
*Hagalaz/Os?
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Wife is spending the night in her office.
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Shower, 01:45 nighty night.
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