Beautiful Loser

I can't believe it.

I spent weeks saving all of the models' pictures from my now-erased beautiful-women picture blog, including this one of Czech model Renata Vackova (which I posted on social media), on a USB flash drive for a potential future Web site that was going to fill the gap left by my blog, and as it would be a site, not a blog, it wouldn't have to be updated or expanded so regularly.

Well . . . I lost the flash drive.

I was moving around the house a lot with my laptop.  I was alternating between my missing flash drive, another flash drive, and an a digital-camera memory-card adaptor.  I was having trouble keeping track of everything.  It was bound to happen.  

So, all of those pictures I accumulated over the course of nineteen years on my old blog . . . are lost forever.

Ahh, who cares?  I had no definite plans to start that Web site any time soon, and now, due to circumstances beyond my control  (those are the sort of circumstances I tend to deal with the most), my plans are such a Web site are no more.  I'm calling it quits.

Start over with a new site of picture of many if not most of the same models I'd planned to feature?  No, no . . . I can't be bothered to go through the Internet to look for all of those pictures all over again.  It's not worth it.  I'd only planned to start such a site because I had the pictures.  No more.  

I don't really want to start a site faced on feminine beauty anymore anyway.  There are enough of such sites and such Facebook group pages one can seek out.  I have other concerns I ought to address.  And maybe that's the lesson of trying to hold on to material from a beautiful-women picture blog that had run its course.  It's a shame I lost it all, but there it is; I'd best get over it.  There are more important things I need to take care of.

You just can't have it all . . . you just can't have it all.

An Open Letter To Janet Evans About Her Web Site

And it's very quick.

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Dear Janet:

It's been awhile since I wrote you an open letter on this blog, but, having noted your forty-ninth birthday last week, I couldn't help but notice . . . 

Your Web site has been flagged as "unsafe" by my virus detector.

Because you just celebrated a birthday, and because you're still my all-time favorite female Olympian, I was prompted to look at your site and see what you're up to these days, but I'm not going to do that if there's a problem with it.  Am I right in assuming that you haven't updated it because of that other virus - COVID-19 - which is now ravaging your home state of California as I type this?  And would I also be right in assuming you're busy protecting your lovely family from this nasty virus, which can do far more damage to the general population than any computer bug could do to your page or to anyone who may click on the link to it?

Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to bring this to the attention of you and anyone else who still follows you.  And please take your time in fixing your site, Janet, because I know there are more important things to worry about, seeing as we're living in times crazier than when you saw that bomb in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park go off before your eyes.  Take care.

Sincerely, 

Steven Maginnis

P.S.  Just as a matter of curiosity, Janet, did you, seeing as you have a personal connection to the story, see Clint Eastwood's movie Richard Jewell?   Because I understand that Donovan Bailey recommends it. :-)