Retirement is for Finally LIVING Life
posted about 1 month ago and has 6 comments
As I have posted before, I often read about people being “bored” in retirement, or claiming that they plan to work forever because otherwise they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves. I can’t comprehend a life so empty and lacking in imaginati...
Q1-2008 Checkpoint
posted about 1 month ago and has 0 comments
We are now wrapping up Q1-2008 and with the markets depressed and the Treasuries paying around 2%, it is just a little too depressing to do a full and formal net-worth calculation right now. Maybe I’ll just skip this semi-annual turn and do my nex...
The Memoirs Project
posted 6 months ago, updated 2 minutes later and has 0 comments
I am an only-child from traditionally small families on both sides, and rather than being dispersed as I think often happens in larger families, our family papers and heirlooms have been concentrated to me. Among these papers are some notes that m...
Semi-Annual Financial Checkpoint; Q1 2007
posted about 1 year ago and has 1 comment
Well, it’s Jan 20, 2007 and I’ve just done another of my semi-annual financial checkpoints. The year 2006 was a very good one for the stock market, and although I usually do these reviews in February and August, I bumped it up a few weeks so my ca...
A Beautiful Fall Day
posted about 1 year ago, updated 2 minutes later and has 1 comment
Autumn is my favorite time of year.
Wots The Plan?
posted about 1 year ago and has 1 comment
So, you've been socking it away for years in an IRA or 401(k), and now you're getting ready to take the plunge and kick-it. But exactly what are you going to do with that hunk of change, and how do you know it will last, and how do you know how ...
Best Marriage in the World
posted about 1 year ago, updated 5 months later and has 1 comment
High up there on my list of “Great Life Achievements” is my relationship with my wife, Betsy. This is now at 22+ years (married, and 2-years before that) and still going strong. Betsy and I are quite different from most people in many areas. I am ...
Never Retire???
posted about 1 year ago, updated 7 days later and has 0 comments
I often see comments like "I'll never retire. I wouldn't know what to do with myself, and I can't just sit at home doing nothing all day".
To me, that attitude represents an incredible lack of imagination. Ultimately, the only thing that makes ...
To me, that attitude represents an incredible lack of imagination. Ultimately, the only thing that makes ...
Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself;
posted about 1 year ago and has 1 comment
OK, so here are the basics of who I am...
· I'm John, living and working in SE Pennsylvania.
· I'm 52 at the time of this posting.
· I am a computer and networking professional, currently working for a large multi-national pharmaceutical co...
· I'm John, living and working in SE Pennsylvania.
· I'm 52 at the time of this posting.
· I am a computer and networking professional, currently working for a large multi-national pharmaceutical co...
