Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

On Teletoon they’re showing The Real Ghostbusters again, which is fantastic because it gets me closer to completing my collection. Today they showed “The Collect Call of Cathulhu” episode which made me pause to reflect on my awesome life. They’re only showing them until Hallowe’en though which means I have to set my VCR for any night that I’m not home.

Speaking of Ghostbusters, Zuul has been extra cuddly with me lately. She’ll jump onto my computer chair while I’m working on the Thickets website and then Kodos is all “hey what’s going on over there” and so I’m forced to pet two kitties at once which as anyone knows is quite a chore.

I’ve been paying $54 a month for a few years now for the Medical Services Plan. But if you make less than $20,000 a year you’re eligible for 100% coverage at no cost. I make less than $5000 a year net so on the advice of my accountant I mailed them a letter asking if they’d return my overpayments from the past years and, happy day, I got a check for almost $500. But that’s just my overpayments from this year. I hope I’ll get more later, and I am prepared to write more nice letters letting whoever cuts the checks know how handsome they are. What will I do with the money?

1. See the optometrist
2. See the dentist (it’s been years. I hope there’s no supplementary work to be done beyond a checkup and teeth cleaning)
3. Get a passport
4. Upgrade my computer (long overdue)

My advice to you is to do what I did and save some money:

$20,000 - 100 percent subsidy
$22,000 - 80 percent subsidy
$24,000 - 60 percent subsidy
$26,000 - 40 percent subsidy
$28,000 - 20 percent subsidy