I'll start with the San Antonio Spurs beating the Oklahoma City Thunder last night, a tense finish, because the game at the end was much closer than the score of 111-103. Want to see emotions? Watch how Victor Wembanyama reacted . The Spurs now play the New York Knicks beginning Wednesday. First team to win four games becomes the NBA champion. That was only a game. In Laos, five gold miners were rescued yesterday . However, two remain missing. Moving on to my topic of the day, we had dinner with another couple in the dining room of 15 Craigside last night. As this was our first meal together, we shared what we all did to get us here. That made me further reflect on my life, especially, what turned out to be three 27-year periods leading to what I am today. I was born in 1940 at Queen's Hospital in Honolulu. That's a more modern sign to the right. The first five years of my life were okay, but I don't remember much. My mot...
This is Saturday, May 30, 2026, day #150 of the year. Some historic events on this day. 1431 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake. Why? Heresy and cross-dressing. She was an example of efforts being made by the English to undermine the legitimacy of French King Charles. Twenty years later, the verdict was nullified by the Catholic Church, declaring her to instead be a matryr and saint. 1806 Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel. 1868 Decoration Day is observed in the U.S. for the first time...became Memorial Day. This happened only in 1967 when Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, moving this day from May 30 to the last Monday in May to create a 3-day weekend. 1899 Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. The first recorded stagecoach robbery occurred in California in 1856, when bandits targeted shipments of gold from the Gold Rush....