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There's a skyscraper going up outside my office window. I'm on the 11th floor of an 24-storey building. Thought I'd take one picture a week and follow its progress:

January 9th, 2002	January 9th, 2002	January 16th, 2002
January 24th, 2002	January 30th, 2002	January 30th, 2002 (quite a payroll)
January 30th, 2002	February 8th, 2002	February 14th, 2002
February 20th, 2002	March 1st, 2002 (pouring rain all day)	March 12th, 2002
March 19th, 2002	March 19th, 2002	March 22nd, 2002
March 22nd, 2002. See that container? It has concrete in it ready for pouring. There are six concrete mixers lined up below filling them up and the crane hoists them to the top of the building.		March 22nd, 2002. A new angle -- taken from Starbucks over the road. My building is the one on the left (I think!)
March 27th, 2002 Up to the 13th floor. They're starting to block my view.	April 5th, 2002	April 5th, 2002. View from my favourite smoothie joint. I'm beginning to think that my building is the one on the right.		Same view May 16th, 2002
We were wondering what was going on down below and have decided this must be a ramp leading up to the new car park. I'll be able to keep an eye on my new red Mini Cooper	April 12th, 2002	April 19th, 2002 (16 floors)
April 19th, 2002	April 19th, 2002	April 25th, 2002
May 14th, 2002 Just starting the 21st floor	May 15th, 2002 Spot the plane	May 15th, 2002 Things to do when sitting at a red light
May 30th, 2002 (23 floors)	June 11th, 2002 View from Starbucks	June 11th, 2002 Can't fit it in my camera			I
It's been a while since I took a picture of the building. Several reasons . . . my window has been dirty, I can't fit the whole building in the picture, and the camera is not behaving. It seems to get black marks around the edge and doesn't centre properly. It could be something to do with the fact that someone dropped it. Not me. However, here are three pictures I took today. They are now on the 28th floor and there's no sign of stopping.
July 9th, 2002	July 9th, 2002	July 9th, 2002
August 1st, 2002	August 1st, 2002	August 1st, 2002
August 7th, 2002	August 7th, 2002. I think that's as high as they're going. I count 33 floors. The building completely blocks my boss's view. I'm telling him he should get a telescope. It's going to be residential condominiums.
August 23rd, 2002	August 23rd, 2002
September 18th, 2002 (spot the Mini :)	October 3rd, 2002 (what Mini?)		November 6th, 2002
December 6th, 2002	December 6th, 2002		December 24, 2002
March 14th, 2003	March 14th, 2003		March 14th, 2003
April 27th, 2003	April 27th, 2003 (a swimming pool!)