Costa Mesa, California, USA. Thanks for stopping by.Sunday, November 8, 2009
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4 comments:
Beautiful picture but wrong city. hee, hee. Someone must have tagged it wrong.
The background structure is the Huntington Pacific Beach Condo and that sidewalk and grassy area I used to walk my dog at frequently. The pier I know well, which is at the intersection of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy 1). That is Huntington Beach and that is the HB pier.
The pier caught my eye right away because Costa Mesa doesn't have a pier since they don't own any waterfront property (by about two blocks). Huntington Beach is connected to Newport Beach, which is the next pier about 5 miles down.
I lived there from 1970 - 1995 and had a business there on Beach Blvd from 1980 - 1995. I miss that place so much but one cannot really afford to live there unless they bought probably no later than the early 80's.
I wanted to buy another house but with prices what they were I decided to look beyond California. Unfortunately I made a bad decision and one I'll probably regret the most. I moved to Corpus Christi and this place is horrible. I wanted my off-shore breeze and no smog, which is really all I got upon moving here. Next fall we'll be able to move since my daughter will be going to college so until then, here I sit.
I've been to most all states and I've never been to a city as nice as HB. As well, it hasn't left the ranks of one of the 10 safest cities to live in, in America in over 20 plus years. On the other hand, the city that I live in right now would be on the bottom of that poll. Plus, it's a filthy city and the Hispanics dislike Caucasians. Major reverse discrimination for myself and my daughter.
I put my daughter in an all african american school from k-2 so that she wouldn't see color. Then I moved her to an all Hispanic school from 3-5. Kids don't see color, what was I thinking. They all got along, always. Only adults see color. Here in Corpus the Hispanics only wanted to hurt her because she was white and smart. She was continually threatened and we even had to change schools.
Live and learn I guess.
THANKS for the picture. It's now my new desktop picture. Geez, now I'll be making myself real homesick.
I see what happened. I went to look for a bigger picture of HB and I see that website that used the HB pix for Costa Mesa. Costa Mesa borders Hoag Hospital at Harbor Blvd. and west side of Pacific Coast Highway. That travel page is deceiving their readers/viewers. Oh well, what's new lol
I just found another picture, which they said was Costa Mesa and it's Laguna Beach. Even you'll recognize this if you've ever driven PCH.
Laguna Beach
Hey, anything for Google Adsense pennies while they try to sell their wares.
Wow, Atrueoriginall, what a great story. It never fails to amaze me the kinds of connections the internet has given us. I recently made contact with my best friend from my childhood, haven't seen the guy in 41 years, and it's been a delight to catch up. Could never have happened without the internet. I guess mis-tagging pix is pretty common, I can only trust what it says. As far as Google Adsense, NEVER here, my friend, not once, not ever. Thanks for such a great comment.
I've got a great AdSense story for you.
I tested AdSense in one of my blogs just to see what was up with it and how it worked. I had it for two weeks.
Check this out though - After you click 'okay' for ads, the very first thing they do is make sure that the ads that they generate match your content. Consequently the ads generated pertained to UFOs, aliens and paranormal. At the time, the Fourth Kind and Paranormal Activity were advertising heavily so all seemed to go okay.
We get like 2 cents a hit. Whoop-de-do! lol
Two weeks pass and suddenly all of the ads running do not pertain to anything in my blog. Hmmm, odd. So I went into the area where this all takes place and of course there was a new prompt in there asking me if I wanted ads to pertain to my content (like it was previously) and if so, I had to add more ads to the board. A lot more ads. So in essence, they planned that whole thing and I'm basically stuck with junk that nobody will hit on.
What a scam. So essentially, they give you what you want or think you're going to get and then after that two weeks are up they yank it with an new ultimatum lol.
I made a lousy $8.00 for this nonsense over that two week period and knew I would make nadda with the ads that they were putting up now. I wasn't going to keep it anyway and just wanted to see how it all worked.
Just the same, and more importantly, it showed me "proof positive" that the company 'Google' is more than willing to scam the general public.
I'm non-commercial and I'll stay that way too.
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