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		<title>One Month on</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dustday + 30
Previous entry about Dustday (Dust Day (23rd ,September, 2009) in Sydney)



It used to be a nine-days&#8217; wonder.  Now everything&#8217;s faster.

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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    I AM the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.
    Do you know that all the great work of this world is
    done through me?
    I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the
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		<title>Chemotherapy + Gripe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: Skip this to avoid whinging, complaining &#38; yukkiness.
Think I&#8217;ve washed most of the cytotoxins and their accompanying protective drugs out, as far as possible, so started on the new drug from specialist.
Eating as healthily as I can manage, with fresh fruit &#38; juices, vegies, fish, organic meats &#38; milk, nice bread, etc.  Have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=1030&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friend&#8217;s Stroke: some wonderful news</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been too well, so haven&#8217;t written much, and, worse, haven&#8217;t been to see my friend as much.  So it was great first to see him with a new tracheotomy that meant he could put a finger over the tube and speak, and in a separate room.  
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		<title>Chemotherapy: 3rd cycle (2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is the start of the third cycle of this set of chemotherapy.  This time haven&#8217;t had much of an upswing at the end of the last cycle. Feeling tired.  Apart from that, everything went without problems.
Also saw specialist for results of tests and scans.  They couldn&#8217;t find any problems, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=1033&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Yes, the world does revolve around me” (Nero)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus aka Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, only son of Agrippina the Younger, sister of emperor Caligula and daughter of Germanicus, who was grandson to Augustus&#8217;s wife, Livia, on one side and to Mark Antony and Octavia on the other. Right in the most prominent aristocratic circles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=1004&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exciting Picture News</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wheeeee!! Not only am I getting an acknowledged* publication (small, down the back) of that photograph from the previous post (informally titled Dust Day Laundry) in a Quick &#38; Dirty, but pretty, MagCloud occasional issue of pix from the Great Sydney Dust Day called Strange Light: Photos from the Great Australian Dust Storm (very entrepreneurial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=998&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dust Day (23rd September, 2009) in Sydney; Stroke cont.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I raced up &#38; took some photos from my flats&#8217; roof, trying to match some of the views I&#8217;ve taken on clear days, plus a few more that I thought looked good.  It did have this strange effect &#8212; the feeling that &#8220;either there&#8217;s so much stuff in the air it can&#8217;t get into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=985&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Reader&#8217;s Digest Building, Surry Hills, Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers Digest Moves
26 May 2004
www.propertiesonline.com.au/ laingsimmons/ commercial/ news/ industry_news.asp? f_NewsletterID=936&#38;f_HeadOfficeID=&#38;f_AgentID=445
Following the sale of its headquarters in Surry Hills for $14 million yesterday, Readers Digest is expected to finalise lease execution for a new head office site, within the next few weeks. The publisher is rumoured to be taking up space at 80 Bay Street, Ultimo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=982&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Stroke</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The youngest and last of my mother&#8217;s brothers &#38; sisters died suddenly this week. If my calculations are right, he would have been the same age father was when he died, but it sounds like he was spared the slow, suffering, decline in hospital.  Of course his family are devastated.  This leaves only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sketchesbymez.wordpress.com&blog=3605673&post=979&subd=sketchesbymez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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