99 days and counting
Dipped down into the double digit countdown today.
ER date is Dec. 1. I was fortunate to get an offer to sign up for ER and work 1/2 time for 6 months while getting paid for full time, plus the full year bonus. With 1/2 time status, vacation, holidays and so forth, it's only 25-1/2 actual days in the office, and only 18-1/2 equivalent full time days!
A few recent milestones. The house of over 25 years is on the market after a few months of fixing a few things and sprucing it up. We've already moved about 80% of our belongings to the retirement house, which has been our up north Michigan lake house for a few years now.
I'll be cleaning out my office this week, in preparation for the new guy coming the following week. For the remaining time I will telecommute unless I need to physically be in the office, and will just find a space to squat for the day. I should be able to transfer the remaining employees to their new supervisor by then as well, so the work will primarily be knowledge transfer and helping the new boss make some organizational changes.
This week I'll transfer some in-service funds from my 401K into a Fidelity account to be managed by a fiduciary FA as a test drive. I'm still not convinced that their services are worth 1%, but it is my nature to try something I'm not sure about and find out for real (as long as the risk is low enough LoL!). I will also start the formal final paperwork for our DB, still about 95% sure we'll do lump sum due to our health situation and low expectations of longevity.
Since we still have the family house until it sells and I commute 3-1/2 hours there and back each week, we've tested the ER budget to some extent, but some of that is paper based to account for that mortgage and travel.
We've been working on the house and moving a little each week, so I'm not really feeling semi retired yet. Well, except that the other weekend it was too windy to be out on lake Huron, but it was great on Monday so I went out fishing.
No longer am I strictly tied to the weekend weather, I can begin to do things as nature allows!