(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

 Plans:  you know the drill

 NOTE: An hours nap yesterday, almost 8 hours overnight; WOW, I NEVER get that
kind of sleep!

AM Prayer:  Wednesday, we pray to Wodan/Odin, lighting a blue candle:
Rune god! Wolf God! Raven god! WODAN/ODIN!! We call out to you, not as slaves or on bended knee, but on our feet and opened-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! If we live well, Wodan/Odin, grant us access to one of the Great Halls where we may feast, drink and be merry with those who have gone before us until the time comes to live or
fight once more. WODAN/ODIN, HAIL!!!

Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Gebo (irreversible): The mystical union of gift and giver, repay gift for gift, a fair exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality, do not take more than we are wiling to give, the voluntary sacrifice of resources.


Outcome:  Good sleep IS a gift!

Audie off to plasma; Audie was a no-go at plasma; blood pressure a bit too high.  There’s a story behind that but, typically, I cannot recall it properly.

 An unusually large day for MLS matches http://www.mlssoccer.com/
 DC 0:1 New England
 Toronto 0:1 Dallas 
Colorado 4:1 NY
 LA 1:0 Columbus 
San Jose 2:2 Vancouver 

Herbalife World Football Challenge http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/07/20/kick-mls-set-give-epl-run-its-money-tonight 
Seattle Sounders FC 0:7 Manchester United (ROFLMFnAO!)
 Philadelphia Union 1:0 Everton FC (the 1st MLS team to beat a Euro team!)
 Houston Dynamo 0:2 Bolton Wanderers 
Sporting Kansas City 0:0 Newcastle United (wow!)
 Portland Timbers 2:3 West Bromwich Albion
 CD Guadalajara 0:3 Real Madrid 
*in San Diego

 Work went as well as could be expected…it's just too bad non-Heathens don't understand the concepts of Gebo.

PM Prayer:  Ostara/Idun:
Ostara/Idun, keeper of the golden apples of youth, 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. HAIL OSTARA/IDUN!!!

 PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

 Plans:  routine

AM Prayer:  Tuesday, we pray to Ziu/Tyr, lighting a purple candle (for honor):
Ziu/Tyr, you chained the Fenris Wolf that threatened the worlds.
We can’t do that, but we can do other things, some ordinary, others heroic. Remind us of your bravery and your sacrifice. Give us the courage and strength we need to fetter out own Fenris. Keep us mindful of our duties, and help us keep our fears bound as tightly as you bound old Slaver Mouth. Thus doing, may we share in your glory by imitating you. ZIU/TYR HAIL!!


Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Sowulo (Irreversible): The Sun, Sonne/Sunna, a lightening bolt, victory, success, life force, confidence, optimism, the clear light of day, can be a destructive lightening flash (clearing), the will to victory, appearance of a guiding principle, guidance in journeying, spiritual guidance, success and leadership.


Outcome:  (smiles)

 Audie is in a REALLY GOOD mood today; I’ll take advantage of that!

 Audie offered to make breakfast: YUMMERZ!

 Pretty tired…

 I have applications @:
 AgCo http://www.agcocorp.com/ 
Spirit AeroSystems http://www.spiritaero.com/ 
And
 Boeing http://www.boeing.com/ 
“Luck often enough will save a man, if his courage holds” (The 13th Warrior).

 WOW!  Napped; must’ve been more tired than I thought.

Air mattresses showed up!  That’s the last of the ordered camping gear.

Work went fine.  At our pre-shift meeting we were told about some special
presentation on the 28th out in one of the parking lots; to include hamburgers, hot dogs and the display Hawker had at the last Air Show.  The 28th…hmmmm…the day we’re
supposed to get lay-off notices.  I couldn’t help myself, I just blurted out, “Yeah, you’re laid-off; have a hamburger”.  The Super was not impressed.

 I’ve been thinking about adding some things German to my daily journal entries; I just may  do it!

PM Prayer:  Wuldar/Ullr:
Wuldar/Ullr, god of ski and bow, you glide through the snow-clad forests bringing death to game and life to your people. Remind us that life feeds on life, and that the beauty of the prey is formed generation after generation by the culling ferocity of the predator. Let
your Yew-bow be the great World-Yew under another guise, so that through the spirit of the hunter, we may climb its branched to ever higher levels of awareness. HAIL WULDAR/ULLR!!

 PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

Plans:  we’ll see…work 2nd shift

AM Prayer:  Monday we pray to Mano/Manni, god of the moon,  lighting a white candle (symbolic of the moon):
Greetings to you Mano/Manni, silver messenger on high, as you fly silently on your way reflect into our souls the glory of the High Ones that we might aspire to the realms of the gods. Bathe our
world in soft brightness, and whisper to our souls of joyous realms beyond our knowing. Mano/Manni let us see the goodness within us and without us, all the nights and days of our lives. MANO/MANNI, HAIL!!


Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Laguz (U): A body of water, life ever-flowing; seen and unseen, the leek (a healing herb) the feminine, Nirdu/Njord, Nerthus, Ing Fro/Freyr and Walburga Frouwa/Freyja, emotions in tact, potential for life, magical workings, personal growth, the basic energy and secret source of organic life, feeling, intuition.



Outcome:  Audie’s in a better mood but nothing as been settled as far as I’m concerned.

Oh, yeah, that’s why; she needs cigarettes with no access to her CSL card for a week to 10 business days because she (mistakenly) had to order a new card.

 Audie to plasma 

Errands:
 Walgreens for tennis elbow brace
 @Dillons for cat food and produce

 I kind of forced the issue about Sat night.  I think things were worked out a bit

 MY JOHN DEERE HAT CAME TODAY…and it looks like THIS!  
http://www.greenandyellowtoys.com/greenbrushedtwillcap.aspx 

World Football Challenge
Vancouver 1:2 Manchester City (a good showing!) 
http://www.mlssoccer.com/wfc/news/article/2011/07/18/wfc-manchester-city-expect-good-game-vancouver 
So far not a single MLS club has won against their European challengers.  
 
More on Football/Soccer; good news for Sporting Kansas City
 http://www.sportingkc.com/news/2011/07/kc-lands-mf-jeferson-designated-player


Work went fine I guess, just hella busy now.  They asked for overtime help with no offer for Sunday.  Even on Saturday we were given the choice of 4 or eight hours.  I chose 4 hrs in order to ask the Kindred to meet.  I called Audie (luckily she answered) to have her contact the Kindred to see if they could come over Sat @ 7PM; methinks it’ll be okay!  The Kindred has had some changes going on in the lives and I want to give them the opportunity to talk about it.

 …and life flows on…

PM Prayer:  Scata/Skahdi:
Scata/Skahdi, fleet on your skis and let me be the game you bag with you bow. Stun me with your grace and beauty, tuck me in the skin-sack at your side, and then take me to
your home where wolves howl. There, teach me to know the pleasure of the hunt, the joy of exertion, and the crisp freedom of winter and wilderness. Brand my soul with wind-burn, so that even in the tedium of daily life, I will feel your warm breath, warm on my check, telling me to be strong, able and worthy of you. SCATA/SKAHDI, HAIL!!

PM Rune:  none

Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

 Plans:  work 2nd shift 

NOTE:  I’m a bit unsettled this morning over Audie’s behavior yesterday/last night.  Evidently she has several people very concerned; if not pissed!

AM Prayer:  Sunday, we pray to Sonne/Sunna, lighting a yellow candle (symbolic of the Sun):
Greetings to you Sonne, Lamp of Wodan/Odin: newly risen! Hail to you who has shown on all our ancestors, who shines on us, and who will shine on our decedents yet unborn. Share with us some of your light, your energy, your power, so that we might better fight our battles and attain our goals. SONNE/SUNNA HAIL!!


Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

 AM Rune:  two Runes:

Pertho (R): The presence of negative Wyrd, 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, the need to deal with uncertainty, unpleasant contractions of birth pains.


And

Sowulo (Irreversible): The Sun, Sonne/Sunna, a lightening bolt, victory, success, life force, confidence, optimism, the clear light of day, can be a destructive lightening flash (clearing), the will to victory, appearance of a guiding principle, guidance in journeying, spiritual guidance, success and leadership.



 Outcome:  Well, yeah: I probably shouldn’t have approached Audie with my concerns right after she woke up, but I need to deal with this uncertainty in her behavior.  Again, she’s very combative over it.  I do seek victory over this situation.


Called Kindred members to check up on ‘em.  One has a new job at AgCo 
http://www.agcocorp.com/default.aspx.  He went from minimal employment but is now working a 60 hr work week AND working in this heat: very proud of him.  Another was approved for her
temporary license in Social Work but now she has to come up with the money to pay for it: I’m sure she will.  Things have improved greatly for everybody all the way around!


Audie is avoiding me and went back to bed.

 FIFA Women’s World Cup match
 USA 2:2 Japan (end of regular time, Japan wins on penalty shoot out 3:1)(m-r f-r)
 http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/round=255989/match=300144437/index.html

MLS match http://www.mlssoccer.com/
 New England 0:3 Philly

 Well, I leave for work she’s sleeping; I come home from work she’s sleeping.  Can we say, “avoidance”?

Meeka for a quick walk; after all, it’s still 90F even at 10:30PM

Made a tossed salad

 Diced up some watermelon 

PM Prayer:  Paltar/Baldr
Blameless Paltar/Baldr, shining god, let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help is to avoid evil, and seek the good. Inspired by you, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and out leaving this life a tragedy. PALTAR/BALDR HAIL!

PM Rune:  none

Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

Plans:  Audie to friend’s house, work 2nd shift 

NOTE:  FUCK!  It’s going to be 100+ all week!

AM Prayer:  Saturday, normally attributed to the (rather obscure) fertility goddess, Saeter (more correctly Saturn), we pray to Sibba/Sif and to Ing Fro/Freyr, lighting green candles (for fertility): Sibba/Sif let us see you in all the growing things that sustain our lives. Help us look beyond the packaging and promotion, to the richness of the Earth from which all bounty comes. When ordinary eyes see only corn, let us see your golden hair hid in its silk. When others see only bread, let us see the grain, beyond that, your smile and laughter. Feed our might and main, Holy Sibba/Sif, that we may do our work in the world. HAIL SIBBA/SIF!!

 Ing Fro/Freyr, you are the god of “Ar”, the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the lusty enlarger of life. When the day to day wears us down, remind us of
pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing Fro/Freyr, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful. ING FRO/FREYR, HAIL!!

Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Dagaz (irreversible): Light of day, total enlightenment, awakening, the AH-HA moment, achieving balance, harmony, positive focus on life, light at the end of the tunnel, increase, growth, an ending prior to a beginning, transformation,  possibly related to the 3rd eye (the place where the two lobes of the brain join).


 Outcome:  When Audie is in a good mood it certainly is a positive focus around here.

 Audie to her friend’s house for a day of fun.

 Women’s World Cup 3rd place http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/index.html 
Sweden 2:1 France  

MLS matches http://www.mlssoccer.com/ 
Seattle 4:3 Colorado 
Houston 1:1 Sporting Kansas City (SKC undefeated in 11 games!)
 Chicago 0:1 Portland 
Dallas 0:0 DC 
Chivas 0:0 NY 

Friendlies
 Club America 0:2 Manchester City (hehe…)
 LA 1:4 Real Madrid  (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… )

 Work went well; well enough I could once again share some minutes.

 Audie is OBVIOUSLY under the influence of SOMETHING.  She isn’t admitting anything.

 Bathed Meeka and applied flea stuff.  Can hardly wait for the light at the end of the tunnel on flea season!

PM Prayer:  All you gods and goddesses bless and keep your Holy Folk. From the cold shadows of the glaciers to the colder shadows of space, always, we have been your people. Guide and guard your North folk as you did in ages past. Wodan/Odin, give wisdom and craft to wits shaped by ice and fire that our foes be foxed. Donar/Thor, give us strength and the will to use it. Ing Fro/Freyr and Frouwa/Freyja, give full wombs so that bodies will be found for the souls of heroes. Let your Northern Folk grow in number and in power, so that our kind may live, love, survive and thrive, not just today, not for a millennium, but for ever and ever!

 PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

 Plans:  errands, work 2nd shift

AM Prayer:  Friday, we pray to Frija/Frigga and Walburga Frouwa/Freyja, lighting gold candles (for Frigg’s spinning threads of gold, Freyja’s golden tears).
Frija/Frigga, teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well. FRIJA/FRIGGA, HAIL!!

 Walburga Frouwa/Freyja, who could not love you?  Women as their own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. HAIL WALBURGA FROUWA/FREYJA!!

 Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

 AM Rune:  none, didn’t make into the Hof before shoving off…poetic, huh?

Outcome:  Good slow morning…

Errands:
*Dillons grocery: vanilla, full-sized Tootsie Rolls?  YUM-fucking-ERZ!
*Dillons petrol
I made the mistake by asking Audie, “What is it that would make Audie happy
today?”
*El Mexico Café: Audie’s happy…

 Once home it didn’t take long for Audie to go to sleep.

 PM Prayer:  The Norns:
The Norns, all three, are present at birth
To weave our Fate from merriment to dearth.
Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, the dark queens renowned;
Glorious ladies ‘neath the Tree, work your mysteries in us now.

That which “was” we clearly see.
That which “is” formed now in our deeds.
That which “will be”, will yet be; but cannot see.
We celebrate the Norns, the Ladies Three, for eternity.

PM Rune:  Jera (irreversible): 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, the result of a previous action, reward for the right (or wrong) action.

 Comments:  Equally slow afternoon

 Work went okay…for the most part.  I made some assumptions about this tool
and ended up having to reload most of my parts because of it.  Lots of extra
work for assuming.  We all know what happens when we ass-u-me, don’t we?  Once
again, the dark side of Jera comes to the fore. 

Cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

Plans:  same ole…SSDD

AM Prayer:  Thursday, we pray to Thunar/Thor,  lighting a red candle:
Donar/Thor, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, let us advance. When we would be weak, help us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, sharpen our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Help us grow from strength, and teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who appose our will. HAIL THUNAR/THOR!!

Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Inguz (Irreversible): Ing Fro/Freyr, the god of Ar: prosperity,
abundance, sexuality and fridu, gestation, the womb and the tomb, fertility, fruitfulness, peace and plenty, nature wisdom, sacrifice for the positive, completion of one stage and progressing to the next, internal growth, wait,  enhancing male energy. 


Outcome:  Got a really good night’s sleep!

 Quick Errands:
 *Dillons
 *Dillons Rx
 *Liquor

 Ordered the last of the camping equipment from Amazon.com

 Styled the beard a bit…so masculine…hehe…

 Took in the recyclables http://recyclewichita.org/   I brought home a treasure trove of
books for Audie.  The recycling place lets folks take books for free, so I
loaded up a box of ‘em!  Audie is so happy!

LOTS going on at work tonight.  One order of 61 simple parts ridiculously had two days worth of time on it.  Scribe, trim tabs and deburr = pretty close to a thousand minutes and all we have to account for 480  min per shift.  It was enough I shared time with “the boys” and we all had a good night.  I just hope I didn’t screw myself on time.  So, either some planner really has no clue what goes on in our shop, OR, it’s the company’s way of
justifying a customer paying, say, $3,000 for a simple parts rather than $1,000.  The other thing that happened was I found out we have about 10 orders in our shop that are considered “dead benched” because the tools are being rebuilt.  Skuttlebutt is it’s prep for Capps manufacturing (to which I have applied) to take over more routing procedures.  We, as a shop, spent a bit of time reorganizing the shop and the “dead benched” parts as these parts were just too much in the way the way they were.

 PM Prayer:  Era/Eir:
Era/Eir, whose loving hands and sweet breath brings healing and health, PRAISE YOUR NAME AMONGST NORTH-FOLK! We thank you for your gentle caress, your soft ministrations and your care. When stress, strains, aches and pains plague is, you come with your lithe figure and flowing hair to ease our distress. Eir, goddess holy and wise, we honor you. HAIL ERA/EIR!!

 PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

 Plans:  Audie to plasma, apply at Capps, work 2nd shift

AM Prayer:  Wednesday, we pray to Wodan/Odin, lighting a blue candle:
Rune god! Wolf God! Raven god! WODAN/ODIN!! We call out to you, not as slaves or on bended knee, but on our feet and opened-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! If we live well, Wodan/Odin, grant us access to one of the Great Halls where we may feast, drink and be merry with those who have gone before us until the time comes to live or
fight once more. WODAN/ODIN, HAIL!!!


Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Dagaz (irreversible): Light of day, total enlightenment, awakening,
the AH-HA moment, achieving balance, harmony, positive focus on life, light at
the end of the tunnel, increase, growth, an ending prior a beginning,
transformation,  possibly related to the 3rd
eye (the place where the two lobes of the brain join).


Outcome:  Audie to CSL

 I’ve made my application with Capps http://www.cappsmfg.com/.  Let’s hope Dagaz is a reflection of this effort.  Here is the reason I made this application: http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story/Wichita-company-saves-jobs-from-moving-to-Mexico/D_lMbX9bfkyThTW7BW0NrQ.cspx 

FIFA Women’s World Cup Semifinals http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/index.html 
USA v France
 @ the half, USA leads 1:0
 End of regulation…USA WINS!  USA WINS! 3:1...they’re into the World Cup match!
http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/round=255993/match=300144449/index.html 

Audie made one of my favorite things for lunch:  SAUSAGE BREAD!

 FIFA Women’s World Cup Semifinals
 Japan 3:1 Sweden http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/news/newsid=1474752/index.html 
So it’s a USA/Japan final for the Women’s World Cup
http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/news/newsid=1474752/index.html


Work went well enough.  That boy, I’m telling ya, sometimes he just has to keep pressing it until I pop!  When I pop it’s not nice!

Came home to a very moody woman.

PM Prayer:  Heimdall:
HEAR ME HEIMO/HEIMDALL, the genetic link between gods and humankind. Your keen eyes and sharp ears guard 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 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 home. HAIL HEIMO/HEIMDALL!!

PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

Plans:  errands, work 2nd shift

AM Prayer:  Tuesday, we pray to Ziu/Tyr, lighting a purple candle (for honor):
Ziu/Tyr, you chained the Fenris Wolf that threatened the worlds.
We can’t do that, but we can do other things, some ordinary, others heroic. Remind us of your bravery and your sacrifice. Give us the courage and strength we need to fetter out own Fenris. Keep us mindful of our duties, and help us keep our fears bound as tightly as you bound old Slaver Mouth. Thus doing, may we share in your glory by imitating you. ZIU/TYR HAIL!!


Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Uruz (R): A weakened position, deprivation, depletion of energy, out of sync, an impulse towards inaction, a severe lack of foundation and energy at low levels, reduction, elasticity, uncontrolled rage, without the will to survive, taking no risks at this time, weakness, illness, the inability to overcome obstacles.


Outcome:  Yeah, this merciless, unyielding heat is enough to weaken anybody; even more so at work because it never cools down.

OMGs, a cool front must’ve moved in.  We’re only supposed to hit 100F even today.

 Errands:
 *Walmart http://www.walmart.com/
* Nifty Nuthouse http://www.niftynuthouse.com/home.php 

Well, $5 remain in the checking account.  That’s cutting things WAY too closely for my liking.  


 Work went well.  There was a brief rain shower that cooled things off a bit. Lots of talk about a news clip involving a local company; Capps Manufacturing http://www.cappsmfg.com/, that is bringing jobs back to Wichita from Mexico.  This same company is in the process of expanding and purchasing several machines from Hawker as Hawker closes my job in Plant 1.  It’s also currently doing some work for Hawker looking to do more.  Right now, yeah, I’m in a weakened position but always looking for ways to improve that.

 PM Prayer:  Eger und Rahana/Aegir and Ran:
Eger und Rahana/Aegir and Ran, keeper of the deep hall at ocean’s bottom, host to the drowned and the sea lost. Your dwelling might be thought sad and gloomy, but you are known to be kind and hospitable ale givers. In your goodness then, cheer us when waves of misfortune pound our life’s fragile boats to the bottom. For even at the bottom, there is warmth, cheer and hope. Be our assurance and our inspiration to strive on despite the swells and swirls of fate. HAIL AEGIR and RAN/EGER UND RHANA!!

PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!

(Heumond = Hay Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or
CE)

Plans:  take Audie out to lunch, work 2nd shift

AM Prayer:  Monday we pray to Mano/Manni, god of the moon,  lighting a white candle (symbolic of the moon):
Greetings to you Mano/Manni, silver messenger on high, as you fly silently on your way reflect into our souls the glory of the High Ones that we might aspire to the realms of the gods. Bathe our
world in soft brightness, and whisper to our souls of joyous realms beyond our knowing. Mano/Manni let us see the goodness within us and without us, all the nights and days of our lives. MANO/MANNI, HAIL!!


Rune Summons
 Born of fire, born of ice
 Life is lived at such a price
 Holy Runes send my way
 Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune:  Eihwaz (Irreversible): Yggdrasil, the Cosmic axis, stress and
difficulties, a backbone, need to have backbone to get through endurance,
difficulty, “Shit happens, get over it!“, temporary  cosmic consciousness, inner stability over external circumstances, the Shamanic link of experiences between the Worlds.


Outcome:  Audie to plasma

 Errands:
 *Dillons grocery http://www.dillons.com/fresh_foods/Pages/default.aspx 
*Dillons petrol 
*Liquor (for champagne)
 *Golden Corral http://www.goldencorral.com/  anniversary lunch; hey, it’s HER
choice and the beast I can offer working 56 hr work weeks on 2nd shift

 Audie out like a light!  ROFL…we are such an exciting couple.

 This was perhaps the most difficult night on the job time-wise; screwed on time from the git-go and it stayed that way all night.  It doesn’t help that the place just doesn’t cool off overnight.  Between airplane parts and machinery, there’s so much metal that gets so heated up it just doesn’t have the chance to cool down.  Oh well, shit happens, I’m over it; at least until tomorrow when everything heats up again.  Yeah, I know, I know, summer in Kansas…and I will bitch all the way into September!

Audie and I toasted our two-years together!


PM Prayer:  Nirdu/Njord:
Nirdu/Njord, god of harbors and seas close to land, Father of the Vanir; Freyr and Freyja, help us to remember the cargoes of wealth that float to our doors daily from the wonderful universe in which we live. Though our misfortunes may rise and fall like the tides, the chance of prosperity, like the eternal sea brimming with fish, is still there. Like the salt-sea spray, awaken us to the possibilities that surround us, so that our nets may be cast wide and return full of life’s gifts. HAIL NIRDU/NJORD!!

 PM Rune:  none

 Comments:  cared for animals, Meeka inside 

Alaf Sal Fena!