10/28/2026

 Wednesday, October 28, 2026

1956 Pope Pius XII published the encyclical Luctuosissimi Eventus

1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected Pope, taking the name John XXIII

1965 Pope Paul VI proclaimed Jews were not collectively guilty of the Crucifixion

2022 An  intruder attacked Paul Pelosi, 82-year-old husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi

2024 UK recorded its lowest-ever fertility rate of 1.44 children per woman in 2023, with 591,072 births in England and Wales, the lowest in 172 years 

2025 China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed an upgraded free trade agreement, which will broaden collaboration on infrastructure, digital and green transition, trade facilitation, and people-to-people exchanges between the two sides,

In bed at 10:50, up at 3:15; 140/75/63 96 203.6; 54/67/47, sunny.

Morning meds at n/a a.m.  Entresto at 9:15 a.m. and p.m.

The game's not over till the final out, till the fat lady sings, etc.  Rays 4, Brewers 3, 12 innings.  What's fair for the goose is fair for the gander.  The Rays played Brewers 'small ball' in the bottom of the 12th inning, trailing by one run.  A throwing error by substitute 3rd baseman Joey Ortiz followed by 15 pitches by rookie reliever Shane Drohan that led to no outs, the tying run, and the winning run, and the fat lady sang - a dirge for the Brewers.  I felt bad for Drohan and Ortiz and all the Brewers but reminded myself, as I have before each of the last 2 games, that the Brewers were due or overdue for a loss.  They won 103 games during the season, but they also lost 59.  They were • 55–26 playing at home, and 48–33 on the road.  For the Rays to take the Series, they would have to beat the Brewers 4 in a row, including the last 2 games in Milwaukee.  If I were a betting guy, I''d put my money on the Brewers in 5 or 6, but I know, it ain't over till it's over.

I stayed awake until the middle of the 11th inning when I finally went to bed.  I woke around 3, unable to sleep, and went to the NYTimes app on my phone to learn that the Brewers lost the game.  I got out of bed and turned on the TV in my bedroom to watch the parts of the game I missed.  That's 2 nights in a row getting up around 3.  I may take a slug of PainQuilPM at bedtime tonight.  I'm 'dragging major butt' today.

Journal entry 2 years ago: Oral History Initiative.  I spent an hour and a half on a Zoom call with Jane Eddy Casper this morning, talking about life at the Marquette University Law School, which started in 1976 when I arrived there after my discharge from the Marine Corps.   The years were historic and fraught, especially with the civil rights struggles, urban riots throughout the country, the Vietnam War and the resistance to it, especially on college campuses throughout the country.  The disturbance in Milwaukee occurred on July 30-31, two months after my discharge from the Marines and one month before I started law school.  The Tet Offensive in Vietnam started on January 31, 1968, at the start of my second semester and Lyndon Johnson ended graduate school deferments two weeks later.  My classmates were allowed to keep their deferments until the end of the semester, so there was a mad scramble to get into an Army or National Guard Reserve unit where the chance of being ordered to Vietnam was much less than it was for those who were drafted.  My class lost somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of its members to service in the Reserves or to the draft.  In November of my first year, Nixon was elected, and in 1970 he ordered US troops to invade Cambodia, which led to widespread demonstrations around the country.  At Kent State University, 4 unarmed students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen patrolling the campus and I was asked to stand sentry duty at the law school because of credible bomb threats.   Student-faculty relations at the school were generally hostile.  I spent probably more than a full hour running off at the mouth about those days.  Were my descriptions useful for anyone?  Who knows?  The interviews, of which there are many, will be available in the Law Library archives for anyone studying or otherwise interested in the law school's history and can be accessed through the law library but won't be generally available online.  I don't know whether I can access all the interviews, but I am told I will have access to my own.

**************** Being reminded of this, I watched much of my interview again today, struck by my nervous (?) mannerisms, touching my nose or face or the back of my head throughout the interview.  It reminded me of the mannerisms of my law school professors, especially the man who later became almost a father figure for me and a mentor, Ray J. Aiken.  Ray J. was histrionic in the classroom, and sometimes even in his office.  I became very good at imitating him.

A busy midday.  First a haircut in Mequon, then a temporary crown with my dentist in Bayside (replacing the one I broke by crunching a cough drop), then out to 181st and Bluemound to pick up a couple of 8 X 10 prints at Mike Crivello's Cameras.  Dragging butt all day because of getting up at 3 to watch the end of last night' ballgame.  The prints are my second-favorite photo of Geri, and a matte print of my drawing of BG and Rachel at the Wewtern Wall, which I gave to CBG.