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...

  Well, President Donald Trump said he will decide today on the potential agreement with Ira n. However Iran's Foreign Ministry said today that the nuclear issue was not negotiable . Plus, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency indicated what Trump is saying is a mixture of truth and lies.  And what about Lebanon? Stock market? Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, adding to the all-time highs they set a day earlier.     The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Friday. The index is coming off six gains in a row and is headed for a ninth straight winning week, which would be the longest such streak since 2023. Jeff Bezos' Blue Horizon exploded on its pad in Florida yesterday .   Watch the explosion .   No injuries or deaths, but a costly loss, for their only pad has been destroyed.   Amazon was expecting this rocket to take 48 satellites into space on the next launch.  That's now cancelled.   Did you know that there are...