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.

the days are getting a bit weird. without knowing whether I’m going to be in next week, it’s hard to plan. that being said, my coach and I spoke about my 360 review today. I want to find a way to make those types of reviews better. regular day aside from that. Armond and I hosted a happy hour for the storage team at Local Edition - great team. View high resolution

the days are getting a bit weird. without knowing whether I’m going to be in next week, it’s hard to plan. that being said, my coach and I spoke about my 360 review today. I want to find a way to make those types of reviews better. regular day aside from that. Armond and I hosted a happy hour for the storage team at Local Edition - great team.

second day of four hour meetings to get through the rest of my teams. i think it was great to get this level of visibility into what everybody is doing, and it also really gave a venue for these teams to get feedback and ask for help. all in all, it was great and we’ve already scheduled the other one for the end of the quarter. to thank my staff for enduring through 8 hours of these meetings, i took them all to dinner at the The Park Tavern. View high resolution

second day of four hour meetings to get through the rest of my teams. i think it was great to get this level of visibility into what everybody is doing, and it also really gave a venue for these teams to get feedback and ask for help. all in all, it was great and we’ve already scheduled the other one for the end of the quarter. to thank my staff for enduring through 8 hours of these meetings, i took them all to dinner at the The Park Tavern.

today was our mid quarter checkin on all the teams on platform engineering. it’s pretty amazing to watch what my teams are accomplishing. I’m really looking forward to reviewing the notes from the meeting. it’s ridiculously long, however, with four hours today and four hours tomorrow. 10 minutes per team really adds up! dinner with lady friend, and another trip to Ici. I think I have to cut back. View high resolution

today was our mid quarter checkin on all the teams on platform engineering. it’s pretty amazing to watch what my teams are accomplishing. I’m really looking forward to reviewing the notes from the meeting. it’s ridiculously long, however, with four hours today and four hours tomorrow. 10 minutes per team really adds up! dinner with lady friend, and another trip to Ici. I think I have to cut back.

pretty uneventful day - I spent most of it documenting the things I need taken care of while I’m on paternity leave. I also spent a bit of time playing with GnuRadio. a short swim too. aside from that, lady friend was working too. I made us a cheeseless quiche for dinner, and we caught up on Continuum. oh. and a quick run to Ici Ice Cream. View high resolution

pretty uneventful day - I spent most of it documenting the things I need taken care of while I’m on paternity leave. I also spent a bit of time playing with GnuRadio. a short swim too. aside from that, lady friend was working too. I made us a cheeseless quiche for dinner, and we caught up on Continuum. oh. and a quick run to Ici Ice Cream.