Introducing...

My name's Connor Healy. I'm 20 years old, and I live in the grand metropolis of Portland, Oregon. I'm a college student majoring in Japanese and minoring in Asian Studies, though that's not fully concrete yet. I mean, in the first two years, what is? I come from a good family in a good town that's getting better each day. Should be obvious that I'm an optimist by now.

I have a lot of interests, and they are all different. I'm a fan of Japanese animation and comics, put simply as anime and manga respectively, though I enjoy comics and graphic novels of Western origin just as much. I'm a fan of video and computer games as well, but I never go to tournaments or LANs or anything. I'm not devoted enough for that. I play World of Warcraft, but not very much. I like good books, good music, good art, and good films. Right now I'm actually watching Lord of War with my cousins and cousin in law. I like good food as well, and I'm big on finding good restaurants in whatever area I'm in.

The name of this blog is Robot Collector, because that's one of my hobbies. I collect robots. I like them, I like how they look, I enjoy the idea of a living machine, and they just seem cool. I'm not a regular collector, though. I don't leave it on a shelf in a perfect box, leaving it to collect dust and be nothing more than a knick-nack on the mantle. No, I bust that thing out of the box and play with it. I collected all 4 robots in the MARS toy line, and they're the best. These dandy little toys were picked up at the Walgreens near my home for about 6 dollars each, and although they were cheap, they aren't built cheap. None of them have broken at all, and the batteries on one of them have worn out simply because of good use. The robots can walk if you turn on a switch on the back of one of their shoulders or by holding down a button on their chest. The robots each come with three guns, able to hold one and mount the other two on pegs above the shoulders. The nice thing is that they all have at least one or two guns that the others don't have. They all have different arms, too, well 3 of the 4 do. One has a drill arm, two have a multi-barreled cannon/missile launcher arm, and one has a gripping claw with a button to push to make it grab things. The drill hand one is probably my favorite, and I bought two of them. They have different color schemes, different enough to seem like different toys. One's blue and one's dark green. Anyway, these are solid, and I really love 'em. I should get more.
This here is why the blog's name is Robot Collector: It's who I am and what I do.

But the blog isn't limited to robots and toy shopping at Walgreens. It's everything that I find, see, buy, or do. It's not a Livejournal or anything like that. This blog is about me and everything in my world. This is more than an update, it's all sorts of things. The only thing that it really is for certain is a blog. What you're reading, what I'm typing, what's displayed on this page is a part of me that's being put out to experiment with on the web. It's an exploration and a journey. But it's nothing complex, not a big memoir, or a politically charged rant page. At this point, it's a blog that I'm writing, and that's all that I can tell you now.