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Well, this sucks. I've had chest pains all day. They're kind of like the ones I would get in grad school from stress. Kinda heartburny. As I haven't had them in years ... I'll chalk it up to a combination of stress and too much of my nani's cooking, and I'll assume they'll be gone by tomorrow.

I spent the afternoon hanging photos in the hallways with my brother. My parents moved into this smaller house a couple years back and never found the time or energy to hang the family photos. My brother was careful to keep our worst eighties photos off the walls. And we got excited together over a couple of really old ones of my mom and dad--and one of the two of us, when I was a few months old and he was three, and we were sitting in my dad's big, black, vinyl office chair.

And some of you wanted to see photos of my mom and so here's one from way back when. 1976, I believe ...