Day #105 Lady-in-Waiting

Today is the 105th day before my 65th birthday.
I had expected to receive my first Old Age Pension cheque 105 days from now, February 2, 2008.
Not to be.
The letter I received this week reads that I won't receive my first cheque until April 2008.
It also says that if I earn more than $63,511.00 my pension will be reduced accordingly.
Do you ever wonder who, and how that WHO decides upon such an abstract amount.
One of Horton's Whos perhaps from Whoville?
Some civil servant has an office, and all day long he/she/it (an ape, perhaps) puts amounts arbitrarily onto government orders, letters, statements, and invoices.
Had I known there was such a job, I may have moved to Ottawa myself when I was younger.
Imagine being given a pension for doing a job like this for 40 years.
$63,511??? Why the eleven dollars. Why the $511? Why $63,511 and not $64,000?
My teachers let me down. Here was I memorizing poems and historical dates and learning trig, geometry and relativity when I should have been given a pencil instead to put arbitrary amounts onto government papers. Too late now.
Not too old, however, to have had a lot of fun in the meantime, thank goodnes, and still having lots.
Hope you are, too.