James Higgins

@JamesHxstatic (29413)

Eugene, Oregon

Joined myLot 9 years ago

I have been retired for over five years now, except for writing and some acting efforts. I have done some commercials locally and a movie or two.

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I am now watching Youtube TV instead of Dish TV

snowy @snowy22315 (180362) • United States 30 May

I am pretty sure I am going to cancel Dish at this point as You tube is cheaper and has some interesting channels. The thing is that it seems like it is not that easy to change channels with the YT TV. I am going to see if I can...

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James Higgins I'm going to find out more about YT tv too.

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The stew: the price of living after you retire.

marguicha @marguicha (222756) • Chile 29 May

As I said in another post, the meat from Argentina is the best there is. Usually it is also the most expensive so I buy Chilean meat or meat from Uruguay or Brazil. But the meat I bought was both from Argentina and very cheap....

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James Higgins Good for you quitting smoking! I know that your country has had very bad inflation. It is strange for meat prices to drop very much.

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The house I grew up in in Chicago.

The Horse @TheHorse (218464) • Walnut Creek, California 27 May

Here's a photo I took the other day of the house I grew up in in Chicago. My bedroom looked out to the back yard, where I would watch sparrows, robins, and cardinals play. I put my desk at the window, as it is here, so I could...

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James Higgins Nice place. We were renters, moved many times. I want to five elementary schools, so I really have no great memories of anywhere I lived as a kid.

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I don’t believe this

Judy Evans @JudyEv (339431) • Rockingham, Australia 27 May

I wrote about the jigsaw with the piece missing. I came back from dropping some things off at the op shop/thrift store and blow me down, just off to the side of the board that I do my jigsaws on was the missing piece. Sometimes...

western australia

jigsaw

thumb drive

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James Higgins I'm sure they'll be entertained. I recall some of those photos and they were great!

27 May

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Trump is Not Only Inviting Neo-Nazis into his Group but Now it's Gang Bangers

celticeagle @celticeagle (166660) • Boise, Idaho 27 May

It seems that Trump will do anything for votes. He had a rally in the Bronx yesterday and invited two rappers up on stage with him. One was Sheff G, who was indicted last year on charges of murder and shooting. He is really...

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James Higgins Anything for a vote, no morals involved.

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Memorial Day Memories

celticeagle @celticeagle (166660) • Boise, Idaho 27 May

When I was a little girl living at my grandparent's house my grandmother would make up dozens of bouquets of flowers from her yard for Memorial Day to take to people she knew. I was her helper and all the bouquets would go in the...

uncle fred

my grandmother

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James Higgins No, but I buy my wife flowers when ours are not in season (at Trader Joe's)

27 May

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Trump Humiliated. Why did he go to the Libertarian convention?

The Horse @TheHorse (218464) • Walnut Creek, California 26 May

Libertarians are an interesting group. They want government out of our lives as much as possible. But I believe they also stand for basic American values. Trump went to Libertarian convention begging for votes, and wound up...

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James Higgins His ego leads as always.

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Good news - Vince is now out of intensive care

Judy Evans @JudyEv (339431) • Rockingham, Australia 26 May

I’ve just come home from visiting Vince in hospital. He’s been moved to a private room which took them two hours. He is still hooked up to oxygen but has various tubes attached so they can check this and that as needs be. He is...

western australia

open heart surgery

intensive care

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James Higgins That is wonderful news, so glad to hear it.

26 May

Listen to your dog

Judy Evans @JudyEv (339431) • Rockingham, Australia 25 May

I was reading an article about an 8-year-old girl who was abducted and only escaped ten years later. Then I clicked on a link where an Algerian man had been held captive for 26 years. His family had believed he’d been kidnapped or...

kidnapping

dog

algeria

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James Higgins I can'r believe they didn't find that strange enough to investigate.

26 May

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Is it global warming?

snowy @snowy22315 (180362) • United States 26 May

The water down at the lake was quite pleasant for this time of the year. Normally Memorial Day weekend it is cool but swimmable. This year it feels more like it does in mid June. We have had some hot days, but nothing that much...

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James Higgins Funny that global warming can cause heat and very cold weather along with violent storms of many kinds.

26 May

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Memorial Day Weekend

Kharla Jolly @kobesbuddy (78882) • East Tawas, Michigan 26 May

I was thinking this weekend about a young man I once knew. This boy gave his life for our country, during the Viet Nam war Was he my boyfriend? No. Terry V. was a young man that I'd gone out on a blind date with. My...

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James Higgins So sad to read this. So many lives wasted on both sides during that war which should have never happened.

26 May

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How many shades of gray?

Lenore Plassman @sallypup (60955) • Centralia, Washington 26 May

Gray has been the color of the day for about a week now. I keep telling myself that at least I won't be able to mow grass. I've thought up a fun thing for my hubby's birthday- next month he turns 70. We'll get up the morning...

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James Higgins Sounds like a great way to spend his birthday. Fortune cookies to take along & share? Good idea! I had no clue that Amazon sold fortune cookies of any kind!

26 May

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Eric Trump is getting skewered on Twitter for claiming his family "gave up everything"

NJ Chicaa @NJChicaa (119514) • United States 26 May

Oh yeah? When did his father serve in Vietnam? When did he and Don Jr. serve in the military? Exactly. They didn't. Donald Trump called people in a European military cemetary "losers and suckers" . He was pissed when there was a...

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James Higgins There is no depth Trump(s) will not go to and their followers seem blind to the insults and stupidity.

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DARK SKYYY.. How do you feel about thunderstorms, do they scare you?

Melanie Marie @Melanie_Marie (1871) • New Baltimore, Michigan 20 May

I was in and out of about 7 stores today. For some reason, my job lights up more at night and into the wee hours of the morning. So during the day I either shop or sleep. Almost every single worker in the stores kept asking me if...

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James Higgins I heard plenty of thunder growing up in Texas and then there was some in southern California too, in western Oregon, where I have lived for many years now, thunder is a rare thing. The most I have heard was one night at the coast years ago, when it really...

20 May

The kindness of people

Judy Evans @JudyEv (339431) • Rockingham, Australia 20 May

The social committee at our village held a sausage sizzle on Sunday. We had intended to go but then decided it wasn’t a good idea to be in a crowded place when Vince was heading into hospital next day. We told the organisers we...

western australia

sausage sizzle

kind people

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James Higgins Sounds as if you chose a good neighborhood. I hope all goes well with Vince.

20 May

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Bon Jovi Docuseries on Hulu

MARILYN @Marilynda1225 (82690) • United States 19 May

I'm not a huge fan of rock n roll (country is more my speed) but raising teenagers in the 80s rock n roll blasted through the house. My daughter loved Bon Jovi and she's lost count of how many times she saw them in concert. Her...

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James Higgins Sounds like a good thing. I saw a quite good documentary about all the music that came out of Laurel Canyon (in LA). It was done by Bob Dylan's son and featured interviews with David Crosby, Neil Young, & many others as well as a lot of music. Called "Echos of...

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The Fact About the Death Stare

Shavkat @Shavkat (139672) • Philippines 18 May

I am sure some of you can relate to this matter. "Death Stare" is best described as seeing something unknown that normal people cannot do. This is experienced by those who are in a near-death situation. They usually see things in...

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James Higgins But these things may also be only hallucinations in the mind of the dying person, memories returning.

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50-Year-Old Songs: Wishing You Were Here

Four Walls @FourWalls (67705) • United States 19 May

The PGA Championship ends today. The weather has cooperated; however, the cops have not. I supposed you heard about some jerk giving policemen and Louisville a bad name by arresting Scottie Scheffler. There goes any...

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James Higgins Sounded to me like Scotty thought he was too special to obey the law. Tough! I did not know about that guitar player. Very interesting.

19 May

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Do you remember people staging ''sit-ins?''

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (37101) 17 May

I had sort of forgotten them. I was a fairly young girl when that became popular back in the hippie era. But today...I witnessed one. Here I was at the pharmacy again, this time by some miracle, our local CVS had one of my son's...

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James Higgins Sort of unreasonable of the old guy. Sometimes it happens that they can only fill part of a prescription until they get more meds. I remember the original sit-ins in the southern US against lunch counters that only allowed white people to sit there, then came...

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People reacting dramatically to a simple piece of paper that fell down:)

Greenery8 @grenery8 (10138) • Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska) 19 May

On Friday, when I was waiting a bus from not so good place, I saw a man, perhaps of my age that had 2unfolded papers in his back pocket. I just sensed they will fall down on the ground and they did. He reacted very dramatically...

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James Higgins Hmmm, must have been some important, maybe top secret stuff.

19 May

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