My name is Daniel Hynds. Some people call me Dan. Some call me Danny. Fewer call me Daniel. Some call me Hyndsy. Some call me a geek. I respond to all of the above.
I was born in 1980 and raised in a city a few minutes south of downtown Boston, I'm a longtime Boston sports fan. When I die I want the famous Snow Bowl image engraved on my tombstone. I was there. I didn't sit for the entire game. My body was numb for weeks after. The snow coming down with the stadium lights and everything was just...perfect. And I was there. Such an amazing game. Did I mention I was there?
The first 13 years of my life were spent in Quincy, Mass., followed by growing up in Derry New Hampshire. I graduated Pinkerton Academy in 1998, with my entire family there to see me graduate sans my father. See, my father is epileptic and showed up late to graduation and was turned away because for the first time in 180 years graduation was held indoors due to inclement weather and the idiots working the doors never took tickets from people. In no time at all the auditorium filled to capacity, where some people had 30 people there to watch them graduate and some had 0. Tragic. Indeed.
I play semi-pro football in the New England Football League. This is basically prison-league football, but a bit less organized and fewer shivs and a lot less shanking.
I worked for the State of New Hampshire for almost 7 years, which is a feat in itself. The things that went on there could be made into a #1 sitcom for at least 3-4 seasons.
I work for an amazing company now that is very forward thinking in the technology realm, listens to my input, and will allow me to grow as a techie. Every day I feel like I am going to wake up from a dream. There really is nothing like working for a company you love being a part of and actually wanting to go to work.
One of my biggest loves in life is writing, and blogging allows me to do that whenever I get the urge. My blog is two-fold: for myself in the sense that I can have a record of what I've done and look back at it with fondness, and for my friends and family with the idea of keeping them up to date with the happenings of my life.
I've had an online journal of sorts every since I could remember. I started blogging on Typepad back in 2004, mostly to keep an online sports blog and see where it goes. It's still a work in progress, but time is what keeps me from improving on it even more. Before Typepad I was on LiveJournal for a number of years.
I'm big into video games, reading, music, watching movies and sports, and just enjoying life as it happens. Occasionally the Niff will drag me to a mountain and tell me to climb.
I live in Concord New Hampshire with my amazing fiancee Jen and our two cats, Ray and Lola.
