Corporate Rowing Challenge - 2002

Cam! Steve! Beata! Chubby JJ!

Well, looky looky!  I was thinking about this photo the other day and, amazingly, was able to find it.

2002.  A young(er) fresh-faced JJ was working in Winnipeg at a fancy-dancy law firm.  A big one!  Classy!  First year of practice!  Registering security interests!  Drafting contracts!  Lots of "hereinafter referred to as BLANK."  Right?  What, you aren't a lawyer, so you don't know?  Well I'll tell you!  Yes!  Lots of that!

Polar Bear Run - 2009

Nice shirt, you say?  I know.  

Well, ole JJ hasn't been doing too many runs lately.  Those chairs aren't going to sit in themselves!  Am I right? But!  He has run some pretty good ones before he started OperationJJ.  So why not talk about one of those?!  While sitting!

Well exactly.  So! The year was 2008.  A young JJ...  Ok, still pretty old JJ...heard from his brother about a mythical run.  It is called the "Polar Bear Run".  It took place in the winter.  In fact it HAD to take place in the winter.  Why?  Because it was across a lake.  Lake Winnipeg, to be exact.  "What's that, JJ?  Lake Winnipeg?  The 12th (or possibly 13th? or 14th?  Every website I look at says different!) largest lake in the entire world?"

A Little More About JJ

Howdy.  Figured while I was talking about being honest in my blog, I should probably talk about one more thing.  Which I think a lot of people reading this already know.  I will give you a hint.  The photo above was taken in my apartment. ("Your apartment!? Whuuut?????" I am sure almost none of the people reading this are saying.)

Anyways, yep.  Status: separated. Since January.  If being unemployed feeds into my posts, well how can being separated not do the same?  Well, it does.  Of course it does.  Unless you ignore it like I have been.  Which makes posts sound incomplete.  So no more.

Which is not to say I am going to write about the separation itself.  No worries. I ain't.  And I am not looking for any sympathy.  But the topic may/will come up when I am talking about me boys.  And I don't want to just leave out anymore.  So yeah.  Separated.  Living in a dinky little one bedroom apt close by the house.

Ok.  That about covers it.  Do you feel better?  I feel better.

JJ outie.