January/Hartmânôd 25, 2019 Frijastag

(Hartmânôd = Harsh Month)
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Plans: 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 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: Mannaz: The human, Heimo; our genetic connection to the gods, humankind, social interaction, cooperation between people, the special human, the human intellect, awareness, kinship, social structure, the ability to work well within a social structure in an effort be effective within it, social interaction and order, perfected intellect, attract support from your peers, attainment of common goals, Divine structure.
Conversely:
Problems relating with Heimo and humanity, without cooperation between people, w/o social interaction, the inability to work within a social structure in an effective way, self-delusion, intellectual arrogance/ignorance, bigotry, inability to make peace with others, destructive social nature, closed mindedness, failed social interaction and disorder; anti-social behavior and lack of Divine structure.
*A3R4
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: 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
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Interpretation: Social interaction (Mannaz) brings rebirth (Tyr).
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1st check on all fur-kids.
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Outcome: 7hrs of solid sleep, then Toby wakes me with his thump-thump tail against the bedroom wall.  Wifey wakes me, too…WTF????????????????
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SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Biscuits and gravy with scrambled eggs.
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Toby and I out for a 30min walk.  I feel HARD on some snow-covered ice.  My feet went flying out from under me and went straight down on my buttocks!  I immediately felt my neck jam downward.  I was helped up by a couple of PN&A linesmen who happened to be hanging fiberoptic lines in the area.  Toby and I finished 30min, but it was a WHOLE LOT MORE CAREFUL 30min.
*cloudy, cold, stout south wind.
*called PN&A HQ in Georgia trying to get kudos to these guys who didn’t speak English.
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McDs for lunch.
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Challenging night at work.  Layout brought me three 1-part orders that needed the PSI hit gradually; 1,000psi-check-1,000psi-check-wax, rinse and repeat up to 7,500psi, then have layout approve my process.  It just took a while.  I think this was the first time I didn’t clear out everything in my area; bag-press and icebox.  I stayed quite busy up until time to go home.
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QT for a snack; breakfast sandwich + a milk.
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks out, Socks in, smart Socks.  All fur kids are under warm shelter.
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Tried to watch Gotham S5 E4 on FOX/Sling-TV but kept falling asleep, so I’ll have to try again later.
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2am nighty-night.  My gaming wife is sleeping in her office tonight.
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God/dess Meditation: (alternate Frijastag) Heil to you, Forsizo, son of Paltar and Nanda!  You’re the god of justice, and reconciliation.  You sit in judgment of the right and wrong of all arguments.  We see you as god of the Thing.  We call out to you in our time of legal need.  We know that justice is a double-edged ax.  On the one side, if our argument is just, grant us the proper conclusion.  On the other side, if our argument is fraudulent, mete-out justice accordingly.  Whether in the court of legal proceedings or the court of public opinion, grant us the justice according to the rightness of our deeds.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, FORSIZO, as we honor the Forsizo that resides in us all!
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!