Why the Movie Serendipity is Kind of a Turd

Internet! Guess what I am doing? Watching a movie! On Boxing Day!  (By the way, Internet, may I wish a Merry Christmas to you and yours!)

What movie?  This one!

How is it, you ask?  Well, I will tell you! It's terrible!  "But why, JJ?  Why is it so bad?" you are probably asking.

Santa Run! 2012!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Well folks, last weekend.  Santa Run.  Did it.  Thought it would be good to blog about.  In the actual doing of it, not really sure it's worth blogging about.  But hey!  I'm a blogger!  That's what I do! No matter how mundane the topic! Or whatever.

Anyways!  The Santa Run!  2012! Burlington, Ontario! (In which there is not actually a coat factory, because THAT Burlington is in the U.S.!)  How long?  Five kilometres.  The hook?  Everyone running...has to do it in a Santa suit!  That's why it's called "The Santa Run"!  The largest in Canada, so they say. 

Book review? Sorta?

(Note! I started this entry a long time ago, but dang.  I just couldn't get it right.  So it dragged on and on. Now the timing is all weird.  But what are you gonna do?)

Plaid!

Hey!  What's up?  Nice to be back.  Was just hanging out.  Ran a marathon on Sunday.  So a little cripply today.  (Note: in October!)  Well,  a lot cripply, to be honest.  This one was pretty hurty.  So just sitting around today.  Healin'.  Hopesfully anyways.  But that's not either here...nor there!  Or they're, for that matter!  (Sheesh! Started this post at that time...clearly didn't finish same day.  Lazy bum!)

Waterfront Marathon 2012 - A second go!

Where's JJaldo (get it?)? Don't bother looking! I am not in this pic.  I don't think.  I don't even know what year its from! Just found it and pasted it!

Hello!  Hope you are well!  Enough pleasantries!  Let's get down to it, right?  Guess what JJ did this past weekend?  (Hint - see pic above. )  Yes, you guessed right!  His second Waterfront Marathon!  Second year in a row!  Bazinga!

Judas.....Priest!!!!

Well hello Inty!  See that picture?  Know who those guys are?  Yep, it's Judas Priest.  Big in the 80's.  "Screaming for Vengeance"!  The big album!  My brother had it.  On vinyl!  I listened the heck out of that album!  Loved it!  Listened to a couple of the songs the other day....eeeehhhh, not sure it holds up that well.  When they say they are "screaming" for vengeance, they ain't kidding.  Too much for these old ears.

The lead singer of Judas Priest.  Rob Halford.  In 1998, he came out.  As in, he said "yep, I'm gay" (I'm paraphrasing).  Which is awesome.  Glad he did it!  Progress!  But is kind of funny too.  Why is it funny?  Well, I'll tell you.

The first reason it's funny is because I already knew, sorta.  My brother had a friend in the 80's who worked at the arena in Winnipeg during shows, and JP had rolled through.  Apparently this dude had overheard Halford ask some dude if he wanted to "go back to his hotel room and party".  Which really doesn't seem like that big an indicator?  But maybe it was the way he said it?  I dunno.  But this is what he told my bro, and that's what my bro told me (grapevine!).  Later that week, I am in class and I am all like "guess what I heard!?"  I says my peace.  Turn forward in my seat.  This girl in my class comes up behind me and whops me on the back of the head!  For suggesting he was gay!  Well, to her I say "Ha!  Told ya!  In your face!"

And! It's funny to me thinking back that anyone would think he wasn't gay. "He can't be gay, he dresses all in leather! No gay dudes wear leather!" Right?  That's funny, right?

Meh, this post is running out of steam, quick

That's all I got.  JJ out!

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?"