Author: Randy Rydberg

A fairly mellow fellow who likes to read history books.

122725 • Thrift Store Finds

To Crown The Waves and Soldiers of Destruction are books that are not common at thrifts, so I was fortunate to get them. The Napoleon book was under a dollar, and the Lions of the West is a great topic, the heroes and villains of westward expansion.

The DVD In Enemy Hands is a submariner war movie I’ve never even heard of, it is amazing that I even pulled it off the shelf as the name is so generic.

The Brahms Symphony by Claudio Abbado is the the second I have by this conductor. It is difficult to pick this kind of title out of all the common ones that look just like it.

American State National

I was just watching another police-cam video where they are dealing with a “Sovereign Citizen” (those are always fun). They changed the name, as is done when something isn’t working anymore, to “American State National”. When they are pulling her from the car, though, she’s screaming on how they are violating her Constitutional Rights. (Wait, I thought she was an American State National?) It would be so much cheaper and easier to just follow the law like everybody else. I’ll give her credit though, she didn’t make them use the taser on her.


Emily and Madeline

We have two wonderful photos in our stairwell, framed and enlarged from their original 4×6 size. I’ve been looking for those small originals for a long time, and my sister just sent me a copy of her girls, Emily and Madeline, so that is one out of two! The other one is my nephew Edward and his sister, Elaine. My guess is that these photos are buried in documents somewhere in my dad’s office, or mom gave them away as she was doing that a few years before she passed away, stacks of photos, gone. But, if this photo can resurface, the other one can, too.