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If you come here seeking advice on how to fix your malfunctioning android, you’re in the wrong place. Kind of.

Portrait of the Squeaky Robot as of the Fourteenth of January, the year Two Thousand-Twelve.

This blog is about nothing much and a whole lot, all at once. This blog is about travel, primarily, and this topic is supplemented with some photos and some words. It’s about the road. It’s about the heart-wrenching despair you experience when you step on that plane heading home to comfort, family, and familiarity. If you don’t know the feeling, I’m so sorry.

If I’m not on the road, this blog is about the road anyway. It’s all I think about, really. This blog is a little about food, a little about DC and NYC, a little about goals and the journey towards bucket-list-completion, a little about scuba diving, and a lot about people. The villains, the angels, the lunatics, the comics who occupy the road in great numbers, where a collision with one or many is almost inevitable.

Finally, this blog is about the process of living and living well. How to live well, I am no authority. I know what works for me, and I document this here under the guise of a wholly imperfect cyborg. I like to think I experience less squeaks now than before, and I think my rusted joints are almost silent whenever I’m on the road, but it is truly difficult to compute. My creator seems to be on vacation.

Current Location: Washington, DC

Current Robot Maintenance Status: Sticky gears, rusted hardware (staying in one place will do that to you); overall, slightly rusty and very squeaky.

Bucket List 2012

1) Visit my friends in Europe + hike the Alps again!

2) Return to the place of my childhood and my dreams: Morskie Oko

3) Euro Cup 2012!

4) Jog 16 miles in one session

5) Get my scuba certification 4.29.2012

6) Learn how to make the perfect pierogi

7) Buy a vintage record player and find an Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Edith Piaf, and Carlos Gardel record

8) Learn basic french (my vocabulary as of now is pretty much limited to ‘putain’)

9) Read at least 52 books this year (one per week, on average), but these must include: Crime and Punishment, Catch-22, The Trial, Herzog, East of Eden, War and Peace, The First Circle,  As I Lay Dying, On the Road, The World According to Garp, The Age of Reason, Master & Margarita, Lolita, Brothers Karamazov, And So It Goes, Magic Mountain, The Ice Palace, American Psycho, True Grit, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Anna Karenina, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

10) See Chernobyl and Pripyat to show my friends that I transcend the effects of radioactivity

11) See Konigssee. Oh My Good God.

12) Locate my dear, dear friend Amy Leah and fly to her, anywhere on the globe.

Books Read since January 1st, 2012

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell

Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut

At Home by Bill Bryson

The Trial by F. Kafka

Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin by Doran & Bizony

The Fall by Camus

The World According to Garp by Irving

True Grit by Portis

The Ice Palace by Vesaas

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Vonnegut

A Walk in the Woods by Bryson

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IMPORTANT: Feel free to take any of my photos, if you want them. I really don’t care. But I have conditions. You can only have them if: 1) It’s for your personal enjoyment. 2) It will benefit your life in some way/nudge you towards that ever-far-reaching ideal of eternal happiness and euphoria. 3) If you want to make money off of them (good fucking luck with that), I congratulate you for being smarter than me.

Thoughts? Comments? Are you mad at me because I’m such a good self-portrait artist? Shoot me a message at thesqueakyrobot@gmail.com or share your feelings here, it’s healthier than punching that wall you just fixed from your last punch:

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