Guess who I met today?<\/p>\n
Ronald McDonald.<\/p>\n
No, really. I did. Well, I didn’t exactly meet him. But I walked past him. In the shopping mall, around the corner. I was there to get a bus pass. When you’re retired you only have to pay half price for a monthly bus pass. So now I can take the bus every day for practically no money. But anyway, there was some big happening going on. “Magic trix”. On every corner there was a magician or one of those “cup and ball” trick artists. Except they weren’t conning people out of their money, they were explaining the tricks. And there was some show on a stage with lots of children watching. It all looked like a jolly good time. And Ronald McDonald was scheduled to perform later. I almost decided to stick around and catch his act, but then I realized that he’s the symbol of a capitalist empire. And that clowns are scary. But it was fun seeing him walk around the shopping mall.<\/p>\n
And yes, I do assume there’s only one<\/i> Ronald McDonald in the world and that he flew to Denmark for this thing.<\/p>\n
March 1st. And I’m officially retired. The money you get when you’re retired is paid “backwards”, so I won’t get my money for March until April 1st. So that would mean I get no money this month. But to carry me over I have gotten a “compensation benifit”. 15,000 kroners. Before tax, but still. My old monthly payment was about 8000 kroners before tax. So that’s a pretty darn big bump up. Assuming my retirement amount is the same as the compensation amount (and I’d assume it is) then I shall be doing very nicely financially. I’ll be able to put a lot of money away every month. Save up for a mansion in the hills, or something. A goat farm. Or at least a new supercomputer. Nice. I guess it pays to retire.<\/p>\n
That was why I went for the bus pass, to celebrate my new found fortune and spend a little. And I christened the bus pass with a trip to the playground. Just to make sure that…<\/p>\n
..yup, no goat babies yet. I can just imagine the little triplets inside Magnethe’s belly, sitting around a little table and discussing their escape plans. “She can’t keep us in here forever!”.<\/p>\n And the other two doing well.<\/p>\n![\"magnethe\"](\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080301_magnethe_th.jpg\" "\\"magnethe\\"\/")
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