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11-09-2009, 04:30 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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11-09-2009, 04:32 PM
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#82
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Originally Posted by mews
In fact, here are some fireworks!
ta,
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Those were some spectacular fireworks!! Wow! They really know how to design a fireworks display in Hong Kong.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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11-09-2009, 04:56 PM
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#83
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Congrats! You made it - that countdown must have been brutal. I hope you have a long and happy retirement!
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11-09-2009, 04:59 PM
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#84
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 471
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W2R,
Congratulations on your retirement. It sounds like a celebration dinner at Commanders Palace might be a good way to start the next phase of your life.
2soon2tell
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11-09-2009, 05:03 PM
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#85
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 577
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I highjacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of gold - Bon Jovi
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11-09-2009, 05:04 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oahu
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Well, it's hard to add anything to all that.
Enjoy it. You've worked hard for it.
We've been following your "days until retirement" counter for months! So... have you started your "days of retirement" counter yet?
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I don't spend much time here— please send a PM.
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11-09-2009, 05:06 PM
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#87
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,891
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How wonderful!~ Congrats to you! Another great role model for the young dreamers....
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11-09-2009, 05:12 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: New York
Posts: 898
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AWESOME!!!!!!
Congratulations.
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Money's just something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.
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11-09-2009, 05:39 PM
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#89
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 4,064
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WOW, W2R, I am soooooooooooooooooooooo happy for you!!!!!
I too have been watching your countdown since joining...great to see FIRE become a reality for you!
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simple girl
less stuff, more time
(55, married; Mr. Simple Girl, 59. FIRED 12/31/19!)
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11-09-2009, 05:47 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 3,864
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Congratulations! I am still still working; have been vicariously watching your countdown.. So when is the next trip to Missouri?
Time goes by so quickly, doen't it- it seemed like just last week you still had 7 days to go...
All the Best!
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11-09-2009, 05:50 PM
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#91
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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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For you W2R - You're free to do what you want any old time :-)
You da best bb!
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11-09-2009, 05:50 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: North-Central Illinois
Posts: 3,228
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 2soon2tell
W2R,
Congratulations on your retirement. It sounds like a celebration dinner at Commanders Palace might be a good way to start the next phase of your life.
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Or maybe my fave....Coffee and beignets at Cafe Du Monde!!! And you don't even have to worry about getting covered with powdered sugar, 'cause ya ain't gonna be on your way to 'work'. And then continue the sugar-buzz with a few yummy pralines from one of the nearby shops.
(ya can't figure out where I used to like to hide out when I used to come down there to my sister's for a visit!!! Well, those and Emeril's NOLA...had cedar-planked salmon the last time I was there for lunch! Yum!....that was after the beignets, but before pralines!  )
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11-09-2009, 05:55 PM
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#93
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 47,500
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
Happily retired since 2009, at age 61. Best years of my life by far!
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11-09-2009, 06:04 PM
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#94
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 15
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Congratulations to you W2R. I have just recently joined your group but I already have learned so much. I have followed your postings since finding this site because of your picture. You are too young to retire. 
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11-09-2009, 06:32 PM
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#95
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Independence
Posts: 7,297
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W2R - work called - they want to know where the synopsis of that upcoming project is - and there are just a few other items they'd like to spitball by you if you wouldn't mind doing a little conference call tomorrow around 8:15.. shouldn't take more than a few hours...
or not - think you can manage to sleep in?
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11-09-2009, 06:36 PM
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#96
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 97
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W2R--Congratulations on your retirement! If you think it feels good now, it only gets better with time!
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11-09-2009, 06:56 PM
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#97
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: the City of Subdued Excitement
Posts: 5,588
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Cheers, lass!
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11-09-2009, 07:10 PM
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#98
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 11,401
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Dear W2R.....Congratulations, and may ER be everything you have hoped for, for so long!!!!!
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11-09-2009, 07:22 PM
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#99
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Boise
Posts: 7,882
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W2R,
One thing you might want to think about is health insurance...
And from me: 
Thanks for the help you've given me here on the boards and via PM's. I've really appreciated it.
2Cor521
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"At times the world can seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe us when we say there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough, and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events, may in fact be the first steps of a journey." Violet Baudelaire.
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11-09-2009, 07:26 PM
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#100
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Administrator
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: N. Yorkshire
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Fantastic - well done.
Wow, I'm at post 100 - I think a few folks here are REALLY REALLY HAPPY for you !!!!!!!
P.S. - Please keep the avatar - new name is good, but let's take things easy, too much change too quickly might be not be good....
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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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