Dave and Sue blog from sunny San Diego where we’ve lived for 6 years. We jumped at the opportunity to move to the land of longboards and fish tacos when Dave was offered a job with an enzyme discovery and optimization company, and most days we love living in America’s Finest City. We bike the roads and canyons (Dave), work on our Down Dogs and Simhasanas (Sue) and try to get to the beach as often as we can.

nobaddays alludes to the sunny, palm-treed bumper stickers on many cars throughout our fine state. Do we have bad days? Of course we do, but we prefer to live each day with our wine glass half full instead of the alternative. Who wants to be left holding the glass half empty?

In October of 2005, after 15 years of marriage, we were joined by our young man Tau, who’s made the proverbial glass run over. His bright love and beauty make any bad day better!

That said, let’s state the obvious:

• Blogging is egocentric. We know this. Blogging is also a way for us to connect with family and friends, and a way for Sue (who works as a writer for a network storage company) to grind out something more imaginative than upgrade instructions for RAID controller firmware.
• We know you don’t care that our offspring is learning to brush his own teeth or that his favorite food is avocado Jello potatoes anything smothered in ketchup. But his grandparents do and this space is largely for them because they live far away in the jungles of Africa and damp climes of Canada. So, yes, often our blog is “all about the kid” but we strive to keep parenting posts entertaining and, failing that, short.
• Our politics are left-leaning on most things and we make no apologies. We were raised in a country where privilege was maintained by force, so we’ve developed a distaste for unilateral action, abuse of power, or prejudice of any kind.
• But when in Rome … blah blah — it’s only polite. Therefore, we try to not go off on the Commander in Chief and his band of merry hamsters unnecessarily. And we try by all means to behave. To this end, this blog uses American spelling for words like color, traveling and program. Though we’ve learned to say barbecue, trunk and pacifier — we even say “data” instead of “dahta” — you may still see the odd mention of a braai, a car’s boot or our kid’s dummy. Such is the life of the quasi-commonwealth ex-pat whitey.
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Welcome to our little patch of tech-suburbo-not-quite-Hollywood — did I mention San Diego is just down the drag from the City of Humvee-driving, couch-jumping, foreign-baby-adopting Angels?

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