wow. its been a while since i’ve posted. life has been both really hectic, and, at the same time, really monotonous. the past few days, and having @babyparasite home, have gone by really fast. his lola and medz baba (my mom and dad) have been in town and have been invaluable in helping us as we get through the repeated feedings every three hours. this is even testing my ability to not sleep very much. three hours. literally. wake up in the middle of the night - feed, change, soothe, then sleep. wake up again three hours later and repeat. we haven’t left the house much, or have done anything interesting. in fact, i’m stealing a few minutes right now, from my sleep, to write this while i wait for lady friend to awake so that we can do yet another feeding. this afternoon, @babyparasite’s other grand parents get into town, and lola and medz baba unfortunately leave really early sunday morning. i’ve gotten used to having them around, and am going to miss that a bit. View high resolution

wow. its been a while since i’ve posted. life has been both really hectic, and, at the same time, really monotonous.

the past few days, and having @babyparasite home, have gone by really fast. his lola and medz baba (my mom and dad) have been in town and have been invaluable in helping us as we get through the repeated feedings every three hours. this is even testing my ability to not sleep very much. three hours. literally. wake up in the middle of the night - feed, change, soothe, then sleep. wake up again three hours later and repeat.

we haven’t left the house much, or have done anything interesting. in fact, i’m stealing a few minutes right now, from my sleep, to write this while i wait for lady friend to awake so that we can do yet another feeding.

this afternoon, @babyparasite’s other grand parents get into town, and lola and medz baba unfortunately leave really early sunday morning. i’ve gotten used to having them around, and am going to miss that a bit.

we’re all adjusting to what life at home is like now that there are three of us. it’s without a doubt who is the boss here, so, lady friend and I are trying to adjust to his schedule. I’ve discovered some pretty bad packet loss in our network connect at home, so I scheduled somebody to look at that. I found some time to develop some photos I took at the hospital. I ordered a 430ex II flash to tinker with. and I finally also made a run to whole foods to grab us enough food to tide is over until the grandparents (and a great grandparent!) shows up on Tuesday. View high resolution

we’re all adjusting to what life at home is like now that there are three of us. it’s without a doubt who is the boss here, so, lady friend and I are trying to adjust to his schedule. I’ve discovered some pretty bad packet loss in our network connect at home, so I scheduled somebody to look at that. I found some time to develop some photos I took at the hospital. I ordered a 430ex II flash to tinker with. and I finally also made a run to whole foods to grab us enough food to tide is over until the grandparents (and a great grandparent!) shows up on Tuesday.

birth certificate, done. child class, done. learn to put son friend into baby carrier, done. i made a quick run to SubRosa and stopped by home to make sure everything was in order before we brought @babyparasite home. but, the time came. he strapped into a baby seat in the back, i played “Home”, and that’s where we drove to. View high resolution

birth certificate, done. child class, done. learn to put son friend into baby carrier, done. i made a quick run to SubRosa and stopped by home to make sure everything was in order before we brought @babyparasite home. but, the time came. he strapped into a baby seat in the back, i played “Home”, and that’s where we drove to.

we, the family, spent all of today in the hospital. the nice thing is that Alta Bates is right down the street from Whole Foods so I can quickly make a run to get stuff when none of us are impressed with hospital food. a pretty uneventful day of napping, feeding, diaper changing, and repeating. hopefully we can go home tomorrow. View high resolution

we, the family, spent all of today in the hospital. the nice thing is that Alta Bates is right down the street from Whole Foods so I can quickly make a run to get stuff when none of us are impressed with hospital food. a pretty uneventful day of napping, feeding, diaper changing, and repeating. hopefully we can go home tomorrow.

Kai Brunskill-Krikorian (née @babyparasite) — May 16, 2013. Mom & baby are doing well. Dad is excited/terrified. son friend obliged his dad, and allowed lady friend and me to see Star Trek on Wednesday night. come Thursday morning, excitement started. we went to the hospital in the morning, and out came Kai that evening. View high resolution

Kai Brunskill-Krikorian (née @babyparasite) — May 16, 2013. Mom & baby are doing well. Dad is excited/terrified.

son friend obliged his dad, and allowed lady friend and me to see Star Trek on Wednesday night. come Thursday morning, excitement started. we went to the hospital in the morning, and out came Kai that evening.

day -1 from @babyparasite’s due date. we were supposed to have exec photos taken at @twitter, but there was a minor snafu - have to get them done another time. and I prepped myself and everything. pretty standard Monday, except for the thoughts of “this is probably the hast Monday for a month or so”. I left the office at 5pm on the dot as I wanted to see lady friend. she convinced me to go for a swim (the first time I’ve been at temescal pool in the evening!), then Zachary’s pizza for dinner. I tinkered with GnuRadio for a bit before we caught the “how I met your mother” season finale. then bed. View high resolution

day -1 from @babyparasite’s due date. we were supposed to have exec photos taken at @twitter, but there was a minor snafu - have to get them done another time. and I prepped myself and everything. pretty standard Monday, except for the thoughts of “this is probably the hast Monday for a month or so”. I left the office at 5pm on the dot as I wanted to see lady friend. she convinced me to go for a swim (the first time I’ve been at temescal pool in the evening!), then Zachary’s pizza for dinner. I tinkered with GnuRadio for a bit before we caught the “how I met your mother” season finale. then bed.

today is @babyparasite’s due date, but no action quite yet. called my mother to wish her a happy Mother’s Day, had a bagel from Beauty’s, and went for a swim. lady friend and I went for a walk in the evening to enjoy the weather. I also packed my overnight bag for the hospital. aside from that, it was a pretty low key day. View high resolution

today is @babyparasite’s due date, but no action quite yet. called my mother to wish her a happy Mother’s Day, had a bagel from Beauty’s, and went for a swim. lady friend and I went for a walk in the evening to enjoy the weather. I also packed my overnight bag for the hospital. aside from that, it was a pretty low key day.

I spent a bunch of the morning combing through options for boy’s names. coffee at subrosa followed by a walk over to Beauty’s for a bagel. lady friend and I hung out on the couch for a while before I got my butt up and over to the pool for a swim. she had a great idea to head to Burma Superstar for lunch. @hivetheory is lending us some baby stuff, and we toured Alameda to go pick it up. aside from that, really low key. I finished off some notes for my staff so they have “homework” for while I’m on paternity leave. and…. that’s it. View high resolution

I spent a bunch of the morning combing through options for boy’s names. coffee at subrosa followed by a walk over to Beauty’s for a bagel. lady friend and I hung out on the couch for a while before I got my butt up and over to the pool for a swim. she had a great idea to head to Burma Superstar for lunch. @hivetheory is lending us some baby stuff, and we toured Alameda to go pick it up. aside from that, really low key. I finished off some notes for my staff so they have “homework” for while I’m on paternity leave. and…. that’s it.

I had breakfast with @marcprecipice! I miss that man and I’m sad I don’t live in the same city as him. we used to have breakfast and donuts every week, but, now I just have to settle with seeing him whenever he is in SF and I see him on every trip I make to NYC. today could be my last day in the office, and all meetings are marked with “if raffi is in next week…”. @chfry is trying to alters reading list by giving me children’s books (or, they are most likely for @babyparasite). opened the bottle of whiskey I keep in the office. then lady friend and I went to the opening of Bites off Broadway and we walked to Fenton’s for dessert. View high resolution

I had breakfast with @marcprecipice! I miss that man and I’m sad I don’t live in the same city as him. we used to have breakfast and donuts every week, but, now I just have to settle with seeing him whenever he is in SF and I see him on every trip I make to NYC. today could be my last day in the office, and all meetings are marked with “if raffi is in next week…”. @chfry is trying to alters reading list by giving me children’s books (or, they are most likely for @babyparasite). opened the bottle of whiskey I keep in the office. then lady friend and I went to the opening of Bites off Broadway and we walked to Fenton’s for dessert.

today was a product offsite at Twitter. I’m feeling a bit disconnected from the product as Platform builds the generic and scalable infrastructure for Twitter, but it still was a lot of fun to see everybody in one place and to have high bandwidth conversations. we were our at Fort Mason so we had a gorgeous view of the bay and Alcatraz. sadly, I forgot lady friend needed the car, so I stranded her at home.