6/11/2026

 Thursday, June 11, 2026

1898  Marines  landed at Guantanamo, Cuba, during the Spanish–American War

1963  A Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolated himself at a Saigon intersection

1963 Gov Wallace tried to prevent blacks from registering at the University of Alabama

2025 The Trump administration called on countries not to attend a conference for ceasefire and peace in Gaza at the United Nations headquarters in New York and warned of potential diplomatic consequences should any measures be taken that are deemed hostile toward Israel.

In bed at 9:30; awake at 2, up at 3; 0310 110/60/32 126 203.2, -320 108/63/33; 67/78/62, mosttly cloudy, thunderstorms, poassibly severe  

Morning meds at 8 a.m., and half-dose of Bisoprolol at 7:30 a.m.

Worrisome t/c w/ ACC last night, had me awake and unable to sleep at 2, up at 3, back to bed at 5:40, and up again at 7:20.  Dragging butt today.

William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun:

The past is never dead.  It's not even past.

I'm having an emotional struggle day.  Memories from decades ago.  Private things, things I can't change, but that stay with me for a lifetime.  Things I've struggled with for a lifetime.  Disappointing things, loss of innocence things.  Stuff that Elizabeth Strout could write about.   

 "My preference has always been take Kharg Island. . .I don't know that America has the stomach for it, to be honest with you, you know, you could make a fortune, but I don't know that  America has the stomach.  I think they'd like to see us come home, but we did it with Venezuela. . . I"m not sure the country has the appetite for it."  Donald Trump, Fox News, this morning.  What does this tell us about this guy's concern for the lives and welfare of the troops he puts 'in harm's way'?  America doesn't have the "heart" or "appetite" for our soldiers and Marines, sailors and airmen getting killed, but 'my preference has always been' to do it anyway, so long as it's not him or his kin getting killed or burned or having their arms or legs blown off.

I've started the countdown to Monday's surgery.  Last Saturday I took my last Trulicity injection until post-surgery, and tomorrow I take my last half-dose of Bisoprolol beta blocker.  I've avoided doing any more research on the particulars of the "procedure, e.g., how the doc gets the catheter(s) into the - is it a vein or an artery, or one of each? - how do they push (?) it from my groin through my torso and into the chambers of my heart - etc.  If I come through the process OK, I'll try to find out more about the particulars when I've recovered.  Right now, I know enough to dread it.