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Dann

Proud father as of 3-10-08!

About Me

Hello thar, I'm Dann. I have a wonderful fiance, Mistie, and a beautiful newborn boy, Rhys. We live in Fitchburg, MA, but will live in Townsend, MA, very soon. I work at Ron Bouchards' Nissan as an automotive technician and I'm loving it. Not much else to say, just really excited about being a great dad for my boy and a great husband too.

My Interests

Cars- Autocross Racing, working on them at work or at home, performance and handling - fabrication. Woodworking, spending time with friends, family, my baby Rhys and my darling Mistie. And watching things on Tivo, amazing!

I'd like to meet:

Just about anyone who's not a dickhead...And Chip Foose.

Music:

Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers (OLD ONLY!!!), any grunge really, Stone Temple Pilots, Live, Smashing Pumpkins, Ben Folds Five, Less Than Jake, Cake, Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys, The Dismemberment Plan, Sector Nine Eight, Pearl Jam, Weezer (old), Green Day (some old, some new), Filter, The Rustic Overtones, one NIN songs (Hand that feeds), The Crystal Method, lots of random crap you've probably never heared of.

Movies:

Office Space, V for Vendetta, Team America: World Police, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Aviator, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Sin City, The Boondock Saints, The Matrix + Reloaded (not Revolutions), Matchstick Men, Kill Bill v1 and v2 - Back to the Future - memento - Kung Fu Hustle - Donnie Darko - Fight Club - Wallace and Grommit - Thank You For Smoking - lots of poop-Teehee...The Notebook -anything worth watching.

Television:

Teh powerblock... Rides.... any geeky sports car related show... Family Guy, 24, Aqua Teen Hungerforce, Sealab 2021, Good Eats, Top Gear, Dead Like Me, House, Heroes.

Books:

Don't read much.... I guess some of the stuff we read in school was good - Fahrenheit 451 - Anthem - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Some of Poe's stuff was really good too, like the Black Cat - And yes, I'm the only person in my graduating class that enjoyed Catcher in the Rye.

Heroes:

Chip Foose is my car design god.

...and this owl
O RLY!?

My Blog

Hey, look, a blog.

So I havn't made a update in probably a year or so, but what's happened. My 240 is all better, been driving that, upgraded the front brakes to a Q45 double piston setup with brembo rotors and hawk HPS...
Posted by Dann on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:20:00 PST

If I didn't tell you.

So yeah, here's a long story short.The AllTrac's clutch shit the bed around May, so in October I finally got around to doing a clutch and gasket set on it. It came out well, but now the engine is havi...
Posted by Dann on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:52:00 PST

How Do You Spell Conjuncitivits Anyways?

So, to catch up, I've been working at Apple Valley Ford now for just over a month or so as a lube tech... Ain't a bad job, at least gets my foot in the door with this kind of work. Over with school in...
Posted by Dann on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:28:00 PST

Yo whut up new blog!?!

So yeah it's been fuckin forever since I've blogged... Nothings new. School's good, doing my Power and Performence Classes right now... Dynoing kicks ass... My Celica leaks oil like it's going out of ...
Posted by Dann on Wed, 03 May 2006 09:21:00 PST

Birthday Presents.

Well, it was my 19th birthday Thursday. It was better than last year (lonely, working, boring, uneventful). I got my new car registered. It's an 88' Toyota Celica AllTrac (Turbo and All Wheel Drive). ...
Posted by Dann on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:16:00 PST

My Car Ate Shit! And Other Things!!?!?!?!

So yeah, two weeks ago I lost control of my car (driving like a dick in the rain) and gave a nice big smooch to a concrete street lamp barrier thing... Yep, car is off the road for a while... I'm gett...
Posted by Dann on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:00:00 PST

No, I am in Love

Well, Mistie and I have gone a few dates now and tonight (thanks to Jen) I got her screen name. We started talking and got to the point where she asked me "what are we", and, with honesty about eachot...
Posted by Dann on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

...I think I'm in Love...

I'm not totally sure yet, but I think I'm in love with a girl named Mistie. We've gone on two dates and they were both great. We leave notes at each others cars at work. I think she wants to go out ag...
Posted by Dann on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Too Much Shit for One Title.

It's been a pretty crazy and pretty boring week. From Friday the 3rd: I graduated! Good times. Went to project graduation and had a great time. I won a microwave! Woooo! Then I worked, basically. A wh...
Posted by Dann on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

You're Welcome. Where's my Thanks?

Well tonight was just fucking fantastic, I went to help Joe with his eagle scout project and what not, that was alright but later on his mom and him got in a huge fight. I was the only person with som...
Posted by Dann on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST