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Tooo many oo's n the link.

(putting on the Homer voice) .... Hmmmm COLA ... YES! YES ! WHOOPIE !!!!!

Paid cash , for better or worse, for the 2 cars we have today. Lately have been logging about 15k a year, total, on both. Going to either sell one , and put the monies aside for a future purchase, or both and get newer version of what we have. My only wish is that there was a worthwhile ALL...

Hmm, the Finlandia/Sake Hedge Fund. Like the sound of that.

An interesting currency play is the ETF, DVB , DB Commodity Services . "The PowerShares DB G10 Currency Harvest Fund (Symbol: DBV) seeks to track the  Deutsche Bank G10 Currency Future Harvest...

You forgot to mention a 4000' climb that started close to 8000' feet. GRatz!. Northern NM is one of my favorite places in the US. Just hanging at 7-8k elevation exhausts me.

For some reason I the link for the endowment method doesn,t work for me. Can someone please post the address ? .. Thanks

Starb, links not working. Could you repost link ... THanks

Rich, aren't you really looking at a 72/28 equity/fixed income split to start. Aggresive maybe, but not hanging off a cliff. How far are you willing to go , before you feel you might fall off a cliff. Prunning and sweeping may keep you at that ratio, esp. if you go into this with an up market.

I'm suprised no one brought up the reason they may run into the events Scott Burns brings up is that folks work into their 50's. When I first started at my work place, it scared me watching co-workers in their 50's age 10-20 years, their last few years of their career. It was amazing for me to...

with some Fava beans and a nice Chianti would help also :) My Dentist came up with a funny comment while we, ..err he was takling about ER. He boiled it all down to figureing out how to "out live your money and out live your memory".

Anyone notice the COBOL adds at the bottom of the page?

Didn't get past Option 2 of your post Ceberon. Take the low commute, low stress, more time off option. The monies lost will be gianed by less medical issues due to stress and the like. Living to with the only reward is hours 8 sleep isn't worth it. Just my opinion

Sounds like yuou are commited to Vanguard. For the most part so am I. There is a good web site called Vanguard Diehards, http://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSocialize/Asp/AllConv.asp?forumId=F100000015 That can give you some ideas, but are mostly Index driven. Also Dan Wiener...

Lets see, 2 chronograph clocks on the forwad dash. 2 set up in the navigation comp. 1 in the air ground link, 1 on the First officers wrist, and a boatload in the back of the airplane if desperate. (flights have been full these days). Have HF radios also to tune in the atomic clock if needed. ;)...

Front page of the Boston Globe .. "Buyers' Market .. a record glut of house for sell in Mass. should send prices tumbling" ... Stuff is still selling, prices have "stabilized", but houses' are staying on the market longer adding to the inventory, and putting pressure on sellers to lower prices...

About watches .. my battery went dead 15 years ago, and wore it anyways for 3months out of habit. I was tired of chasing down batterys for the thing, and also realized there were at least 5 time devices within a 3 foot radius of my work space And Nords get this, I'm a Pilot. Been flying...

Hydro, .. have you tried E-Mailing Scott Burns? He might be interested to see how it went going forward, or know. May be worth a try.

So How'd it go ?

Your messing with my early retirement plan.

Go to http://www.google.com , type in failure. Then hit "I'm feeling lucky" button.

I belong to PETA .... (People Eating Tasty Animals) ::). I like veggies also. I also like breathing the air, but these days seems to have more toxins in it than ever before. Unless you want to become a recluse, freak, or isolate yourself from the rest of society, doesn't it all come down to...

:) At least his thread hasn't been hijacked by Kitty litter and cat food .. or should that be the other way around?

Re: Leave my night job? IF you want to head back to Minnesota, can you "translate" what you are doing now in Puget Sound in Minnesota, or wil it be just a family reunion. AND is your family on board with the move. Having a network, which "a large amount of relitives" are .. esp if ... can mean...

Hmm your not native american are you? Reminds me of a joke.