Everyday w/ JPK

Isaac is doing great. Smiling and rolling over. I posted a bunch of videos here.

Here’s Isaac with his closest cousin Tillie.

So today was long and started early. In fact it started yesterday morning for me.

R had two hours sleep and I had none when her water broke at 12:40 am. Things progressed smoothly, until they didn’t, we were both exhausted and made the choice for pain relief for a little rest, but the slippery slope soon led us to more interventions, complications, a big scare then an emergency c-section.

My brain wasn’t really functioning as I was 90 percent asleep when the C was called, definitely the chaos that ensued was one of the scariest experiences of my life. I felt completely powerless and until they got Isaac’s heart rate stabilized, which took a millenia of 2 minutes, I was not aloud in the OR.

I was in shock after that. I had some fun with Isaac but was nowhere near okay until we got back to Randa. They are both doing well now, and after a day or two more here at the hospital we’ll get to go home.

Isaac Kaffer was born at 12:16 pm January 25th, 2010

So I’ve been working late nights these past two weeks processing an amazing amount of images for a wedding I shot at the beginning of the month.

It’s been a rough week, not rough like I’m having a bad time or I’m working too much, but rough in the sense that, we’re on the cusp, week 39 is coming to an end.

Every little thing I do has an air of tying up the loose ends on a life that will be intensely different shortly.

It’s a welcome change but stress is a constant. From what I’ve been told I’m about to enter into the time warp and before I know it our unborn son will be ten and soon thereafter twenty.

With that in mind I came across this image from the wedding and found a bit of allegory in it.

I hope it finds you well, good night.

So we almost made it a whole year in this day and age without internet, I feel like I could write the epic blog of our generation about just that subject…

A lot has changed in my life but I don’t really care to share that as my life is only tersely why I put pictures into this thing. The pictures are the characters and you get to write the plot infer stories and develop your own timelines and arduous screenplays. That said here’s shane with knit panties.

Pullman, 2009

Portland

So yesterday I rolled a 209 while bowling in Brooklyn with R, L and A. It was ridiculous! I only left one pin standing in the tenth frame, got 5 strikes (four in a row) and picked up a fairly ludicrous split. I think it was an 8-6-10, if you care. It all seems like a dream now, luckily I got a print out from the lane. My last PR stood for at least 13 years. I don’t know if I’ll ever beat this.

State College, PA

Troy, Pa
September 2008