Recent content by flash9

Our route is very close. Where you went counter clockwise we are going to go clockwise. We start in Lisbon then proceed to, Talasnal, Aveiro, Porto, Lamego, Caastelo Rodrigo, Monsanto, Marvao and then after staying in Evora, before we will head back to Lisbon for a night before flying home...

Retirement is Working out GREAT So, I did end up working January and February and was able to contribute all but about $2,000 to my Simple IRA. Retired on March 1, 2022. On the positive side our spending has been much lower than expected. I do not need to tell any of you, the negative has...

Asked me to stay on a couple more months. As I was about to begin my last two months of employment for my current employer, they have asked if I would be willing to work until the end of February. My initial thought was no, as much of the income would be eventually lost to higher Health...

i-ORP - Monte Carlo Not Working I have been trying to see the results of the i-ORP's Monte Carlo simulation for more than a week, and I keep getting the following error. Am I doing something wrong? Is it working for anyone else?

I also really like this tool. FIRECalc and Personal Capital basically tells me I have enough to retire, but this tool tells me where and when yo withdraw funds during retirement. Part of my retirement plan includes maximizing the ACA Health Insurance options, by taking full advantage of both...

Thanks for bringing the i-ORP Extended tool to my attention, but I seem to have a problem when I enter the break down fro Stocks and Bonds. :facepalm: Please see my Post Here in the Early Retirement > FIRE and Money forum.

First Thanks to allenciox for pointing out this web based retirement tool. Second, I have stepped through the Extended ORP, and I do not know if I found a bug, but it seems to be not taking my inputs correctly. I have found that if I enter 80% for Stock and 0% for Bonds, it should then compute...

Yes July was the highest month since we started the business over 10 years ago. Last year we did 1,500, so not exactly the kind of income you are thinking. I would rather not revel all of the numbers, but both Personal Capital and FIRECalc estimate we can spend $85k a year without running out...

No - It was a complete Surprise to my CEO/President. I have talked briefly with him this afternoon, and he wants my to write the Job Requirements and help with interviewing potential candidates. So it is "so far" looking like the very early notification has been very much appreciated. Remember...

I have a couple early Mazda Miata's and two other car's, that I do all of the service on. I like to brew my own Beer and Apfelwein. I play tennis three times a week, and my wife and I have a side business servicing tennis and racquetball racquets out of the house. The month of July we strung 220...

I have worked remotely for over 9 years for this company. It is a small (15 employees) engineering software company but thanks to me we have customers in Asia and Europe that we did not have 9 years ago. They are located in MO, but I live in NC. I would think it is NC Unemployment that would be...

Thank you for the welcome. We have always lived well below our means, and saved between 20% to 40% of my income annually. Most years it was closer to 40%. Most of our savings are in an Individual IRA (former 401K's), but we also have about 20% of our investments in two Individual ROTH IRA's...

Thank you - I was able to change 2020 to 2021. :facepalm:

I will be tending my resignation on 8/10/2021. :dance: I have been with my current employer since 2012, and I am the only person in the company handling their accounts/customers. In my resignation letter, I plan on letting them know that it is my desire to work until 12/31/2021, and for them to...