Everyone Loves Larry

The Ugly Update: 3

January 6, 2023

So I’ve put on a few pounds in the last few years. When I started the current job back in Nov 2018, I was around

A Meandering Post…

January 5, 2023

Apropos of a few previous posts, the young lady I occasionally watch on YouTube recently posted a video of another girl she saw on TikTok

YOLO: A Follow-Up Post on “Intentionality”

January 2, 2023

I had mentioned the conversation about YOLO at the coffee shop we frequent: Civitas Coffee on Valley View and Rosecrans. In describing the idea as

YOLO, Making the Most of Life, and What That Means to Me

January 2, 2023

The idea of “you only live once” (YOLO) came up at church. YOLO carries the challenge to live life to the fullest, to make the

How “Normal” Am I?

December 31, 2022

My youngest son came from Vegas over Christmas. On Christmas Eve, we stayed up till around midnight just talking about stuff. I mentioned that like

December 2022 Reading

December 31, 2022

Jude The Obscure– Thomas Hardy (1896) Jude the Obscure is a novel about a common man. The intro says it was the first novel with a lower-class lead

Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 5

December 24, 2022

I finished reading A Christmas Carol this morning. I decided to read it over a few mornings, rather than all at once. I was thinking of

Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 4

December 20, 2022

I watched Miracle on 34th Street this evening. Pretty good movie, had some humorous moments in it. Little girl Natalie Wood, who played Susan, pretty

Traditional Christmas Stuff: No 3

December 18, 2022

So today I bought some stuff to make a Gingerbread house. I love the recipes from Serious Eats, so I chose this one for my

Ancestry DNA Results

December 17, 2022

I was given an Ancestry.com DNA kit a while back. My sister-in-law had ordered an extra, so she just gave it to me. It took

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.

EVERYONE LOVES LARRY

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