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01-01-2016, 08:22 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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Fire in the hole!
Though my last day of w*rk was the 22nd, yesterday was my official last day, assuming the HR folks, now on holiday, get the paperwork done in a timely fashion.
After 32 years in semiconductor "research", and another 12 as "miscellaneous" worker bee, and, for that matter, nearly 11 years on ER.org, my plan has come to fruition!
Now to smash the hell out of my alarm clock!
Name added to the 2015 roster.
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Have Funds, Will Retire
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01-01-2016, 08:25 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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Congratulations !
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01-01-2016, 08:25 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2013
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Congrats on joining the best club on the planet.
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01-01-2016, 08:25 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Congratulations!
You showed up on the forum about the time I pulled the plug, a little over 10 years ago. Hope your first 10 years of retirement are as enjoyable as mine were!
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Numbers is hard
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01-01-2016, 08:28 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern IL
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Congrats! But don't smash that alarm clock - maybe once or twice a year you will need it for something you want to do! You might want to write down the instructions on how to set it, before you forget (and I'm not joking!).
-ERD50
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01-01-2016, 08:42 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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I'm already having trouble with which day it is...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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01-01-2016, 08:50 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
Congratulations!
You showed up on the forum about the time I pulled the plug, a little over 10 years ago. Hope your first 10 years of retirement are as enjoyable as mine were!
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Yep, and after some brief reconsideration, I came up with "Have Funds, Will Retire", HFWR for short, a play on the name of the old TV show " Have Guns, Will Travel"...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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01-01-2016, 08:55 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Dec 2014
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Congratulations!
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01-01-2016, 09:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Cavalier
Posts: 2,317
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Congratulations!
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01-01-2016, 09:38 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: No. California
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Congratulations.
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01-01-2016, 11:54 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2012
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01-01-2016, 12:44 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Nov 2015
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Congratulations! Just leave the clock going and enjoy the fact that some other poor SOB has to be somewhere and you don't!
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01-01-2016, 12:47 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
Now to smash the hell out of my alarm clock!
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That was in my retirement plans too. But as noted there are two or three days a year when I actually want to get up early for some activity. But it's always something more fun than w*rk.
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-01-2016, 01:10 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
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Congratulations! 
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01-01-2016, 01:30 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Sarasota, FL & Vermont
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Congratulations HFWR! Was the last 12 years a long OMY? 
Go ahead an smash the alarm clock if you want... I do need to set an alarm occasionally (mostly for golf) and when I do I just use my cellphone.
What are you going to do now?
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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Slow and steady wins the race.
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01-01-2016, 01:46 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Jacksonville
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HFWR, you said you have been on the forum for over a decade. This leads to a question. If my plan is right, I will be finished in about 10 years. How did you keep a good attitude watching so many on this forum RE each year while you work towards it?
Many days I find myself already with short-timers disease. I may be unbearable in six or seven years. Am I the only one who thinks like this?
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01-01-2016, 03:57 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 10,723
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HFWR
Name added to the 2015 roster.
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Playing it close to the vest, lol! You disclosed only after the fact?
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01-01-2016, 04:02 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Hot dog!!! CONGRATULATIONS and welcome to the rest of your life!
Quote:
Originally Posted by pb4uski
Go ahead an smash the alarm clock if you want... I do need to set an alarm occasionally (mostly for golf) and when I do I just use my cellphone.
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I put my alarm clock in a drawer - - and then went out and bought one that plays delightful bird songs to awaken me gently, on days when I want to get up earlier. Awakening slowly over fifteen minutes or so while listening to bird songs is much more civilized.
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Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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01-01-2016, 04:09 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Congratulations.
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Retired in Jan, 2010 at 55, moved to England in May 2016
Enough private pension and SS income to cover all needs
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01-01-2016, 04:57 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 2,115
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Congrats!! Guess you have the funds. Now you will retire!
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