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Haggling

March 24, 2022

So I hate haggling. Some people love it. They seem to enjoy going in and seeing if they can get a better price for the

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More realizations

March 23, 2022

Well, maybe not realizations specifically. I was aware when I put the last post up that it might come off as kind of whiny or

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Realizations

March 21, 2022

Over the last few months I’ve come to several realizations about myself. Hopefully these lead to some changes. The first realization is that I’m just

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Florida Vacation: Miami

February 16, 2022

The main point of this vacation was to spend Valentine’s in Miami. We drove from Orlando to Miami on Sunday morning, which gave us a chance

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dave

“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.