Former TV meteorologist Janie Peterson has reinvented herself with a new e-career and hairdo.

Over the past year, Peterson and her husband, award-winning TV photojournalist Chris Peterson, have been quietly building a clientele for Peterson Productions, their marketing strategies/video company (petersonproductionslive.com). Do not call it a video production company.

"Peterson Productions is more than a video production company," said Janie. "Of course, shooting and editing supports many advertising solutions, but e-video always starts with a creative marketing strategy and branches out in directions you didn't know were possible. My technology and communications backgrounds came together beautifully to create e-video."

Plus, "Boyfriend and I are working together again!" said Janie.

Boyfriend, for the uninitiated, is what Janie and her friends call Chris.

"The reason I even came up with my e-video [business] idea is that Wendy Burch, a media trainer and mutual friend of Inga Hammond, was in town to train the Timberwolves right after I found out my contract wasn't renewed and she said: Janie, it's a no-brainer. You happen to be sleeping with the best photog in the country. Duh! That's when I slept on it and thought maybe I should do something with Boyfriend.

"I am on FIRE!" said Janie, who still has irrepressible energy. "Business is fantastic!"

Speaking of fire, what about Ingaaaa, perhaps the most interesting media person ever to enter a Twin Cities TV newsroom (or sports locker room)? Again, for the uninitiated, I spell it Ingaaaa because, among other reasons, that helps people pronounce the name as she does. Hammond, the blonde bombshell whose personal magnetism freaked out KSTP-TV managers when she anchored there, is now on the Golf Channel.

"She's doing pretty well, excited to be doing the golfing thing. That kind of is right up her alley. I think she's really happy. She's not married, perpetually dating," said Janie. Oh yeah, Ingaaaa dating in the Twin Cities; those were good times for gossip.

The Peterson crew Moving on, I asked if Reece, Janie and Boyfriend's firstborn, had settled down. His mother hasn't, so I kind of knew the answer. "No," she said. "I'd have to say he's maturing. He's calm if you meet him. Does he get into a little trouble here and there? Yeah."

"And then we've got Little C.J. and she's an angel baby girl," said Janie. "She got the sweetest heart. Just the nicest little girl in the world."

Baby Georgeo, born later in 2002 after Janie's dad, George Peterson, died, just turned 5. "Actually when he was 18 months he demanded we call him Georgeo-yo-yo, which we have shortened to plain Yo-Yo. Plain he is not. He thinks he's Bon Jovi. He is going to be a rock star or so he thinks; he did go to the Bon Jovi concert this summer.

"When he was 3, he went to a hair-cutting place and said, 'I want to cut my hair like Bon Jovi's.' It's kind of bizarre but he's the cutest little bugger you ever saw."

The reinvention of Janie Peterson has also included a new 'do: "You can thank Tom Schmidt for that. Tom Schmidt is still supporting my look."

No 'roids for Kirby, Kent There are a couple of names many did not want to come up in the Mitchell Report on the epidemic of steroids usage in MLB:

Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek.

I, for one, was never worried that these darlings of Twins World Series lore ever juiced their numbers. Just look at them. The changes in their bodies were obviously the result of cheeseburgers and steakroids -- not steroids.

By the way, when is Commish Bud "Call to Action" Selig going to be called to act on a resignation letter?

Celebrating Crump The chatter as guests awaited Hennepin County Judge Harry Crump's arrival at his surprise combo retirement/70th birthday party Thursday was that somebody at the courthouse had accidentally spilled the beans.

But Crump, with wife Faith Crump, sure looked surprised on the escalator taking them down to the floor of the TCF atrium, where friends had gathered. Judge's knees kind of buckled when he realized the group was singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" to him.

Crump, who issued the order to keep the Twins out of MLB's contraction plans, is considered the judge who saved baseball in Minnesota.

C.J. is at 612.332.TIPS or cj@startribune.com. E-mailers, please state a subject -- "Hello" doesn't count. Attachments are not opened, so don't even try. More of her attitude can be seen on FOX9 Thursday mornings.