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02-14-2011, 11:39 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: midwestern city
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Congratulations.
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02-15-2011, 05:13 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Central MS/Orange Beach, AL
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Congrats and enjoy your retirement.
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Retired 3/31/2007@52
Investing style: Full time wuss.
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02-15-2011, 06:03 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 2,472
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What a great way to put your j*b behind you. Now on to new and better times.
Love your volunteer work at the Nature Center.
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02-15-2011, 06:46 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: USA
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Congrats! A perfect day indeed!
Where do I apply for such a sweet gig? ;-) I can telecommute for the assignment in India for US benefits and your schedule! 
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02-15-2011, 07:10 AM
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gone traveling
Join Date: May 2008
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Congratulations! Sounds like you have it well-orchestrated.
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02-15-2011, 09:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Denver
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Wonderful post! Congratulations.
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02-15-2011, 09:32 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Seatlle
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Touche' Running Bum!!
I am seriously jealous of a last day work schedule like that! Skiing, Brewskis & lotsa Fun!! You know how to do it Right! 
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When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
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02-15-2011, 10:04 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jan 2011
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Take me with you.
Please.
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02-15-2011, 10:06 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: North Oregon Coast
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Y'all are my inspiration to cash out some day, hopefully sooner rather than later. 
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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02-15-2011, 10:09 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 270
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by Groovy
Take me with you.
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Welcome to the board Groovy!
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02-15-2011, 10:20 AM
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Dryer sheet aficionado
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 48
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Thanks. Long time lurker. I'll post in the "Hi, I am" forum eventually.
Sorry to sound whiny and self-centered in your thread, RunningBum. Congratulations, and best wishes in your retirement!
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02-15-2011, 02:21 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 13,227
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Whew! It's done. No surprises, but not everything went on schedule.
First, my boss was late to the 8am call because his 7:30 started late. He did IM me at 8:03 to let me know.
Then I needed to scan my signed copy of a letter he sent, and my scanner wouldn't work. I forgot all about the suggestion in another thread to use a digital camera, and wound up using a neighbors fax.
Then on the 2nd ski run of the day, I got to the bottom, and saw a ski sliding towards me from way uphill. It crashed into the lift line barrier and I recognized it as one owned by a guy I was skiing with. I carried it back up on the lift so he wouldn't have to walk down, and was going to give him grief about it but then saw from the lift it looked like half his face was bloody. It was actually a lot worse looking than it really was, his sun glasses just dug into his face and he cleaned it up and continued skiing. It was such a nice ski day, and we've got 2 weeks of warm weather moving in, that we decided to ski through lunch and defer the brewpub lunch til next week.
Most importantly, there were no surprises in the meeting with the HR person. I actually had a pleasant surprise a couple weeks ago when my boss told me I would be getting 2 more months (at half-time pay) than we had agreed to, and this meeting confirmed the extra pay. Yay!
The HR person couldn't answer all of my questions so I've got to talk to some benefits people, but these are things that add up to just a few hundred dollars and I don't expect to get them, but it doesn't hurt to ask. It's things like health incentives that they would be adding to my HSA in April. So I will have to login a couple times in the next few days, but I'm not touching any work.
So a few blips, but success none the less!
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02-15-2011, 02:45 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Dec 2010
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Thanks for sharing. Congrats on getting it done!
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02-15-2011, 03:48 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 880
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Congratulations!!! Sounds like a great last day.
I'm also envious of you training for the Boston Marathon. It is on my bucket list but I'm not sure I can post a qualifying time.
Enjoy your retirement.
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02-15-2011, 04:40 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 5,596
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Know what's so cool about this? You're now in control of your life. That's a great feeling. To be free to live your life without someone telling you where to be and what to do.
Congrats again RunningBum. You've worked hard and now is the time to live life the way you want to. Go for it!
Oh, and please keep us posted too 
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I purr therefore I am.
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02-15-2011, 04:48 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 746
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I love happy endings! 
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02-15-2011, 05:03 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Houston/Galveston area
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Very cool. I'm going to join you on the 28th. Maybe we can hoist a virtual cold one.
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02-15-2011, 05:04 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NC Triangle
Posts: 5,807
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Most excellent! I add my congratulations to the pile!
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02-15-2011, 05:09 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,304
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RunningBum
What next? Short term I've got to go sign my revised will the next day, go on a ski trip to Utah 10 days later, finish my taxes, increase my training for the Boston marathon, close out the local ski season, move my 401K, figure out a partial Roth conversion, move my HSA, and re-balance my AA with all of these moves.
Longer term, I'm going to add more cross-training (weights, swimming) to my running; more time volunteering at the local nature center; slowly getting around to projects I've put off around the house, including more work on my model train layout; more reading; hmm, that sounds like enough, don't really want to rush into too much, just enjoy a life of leisure for awhile.
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Beautiful way to close out a chapter in your life, especially the excerpt above. Congrats!!!
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Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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02-15-2011, 08:05 PM
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Administrator
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Well done Running Bum!
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