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Continue reading →: Unpacking the Final YearI am realizing that a small change, especially symbolic ones, can help with making a decision more real. When I moved to the current Death Star I bought a moving box of stuff from the old death star plus my office decorations. They sat in my office for close to…
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Continue reading →: Confessions of a FIRE Nerd Who Needs to Stop Feeding the FIREA person needs space and bandwidth to try new things. To explore. To play. My life has filled up with habits, good and bad, and adding new things in your 50s isn’t as easy as it should be. Any time I try to add a new hobby, I almost…
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Continue reading →: T-0 Failure to LaunchA few posts ago I admitted that One More Year Syndrome had caught a hold of me. I outline many good reasons why. But… Today was supposed to be the day. One year ago, I wanted today to be a different day—the first day I didn’t go to work Today…
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Continue reading →: Money Rich, Relationship PoorRelationships are the currency of retirement. The more or deeper relationships you have in retirement, the richer you are. Money can influence this part of your life, but only in smaller ways. It does not impact your skill at making friends—it just increases the surface area of opportunity by allowing…
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Continue reading →: Confessions of a FI Gambler Part 1 : $1,600 on BlackI’ve admitted to a gambling issue that keeps me away from any casino (Never Tell Me the Odds: The Dark Side of the Stress Vacuum). I have admitted to picking individual stocks (The Price of (Toilet) Paper Wealth). Both non FIRE like bad habits. I’ve spent years engineering my way toward the…
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Continue reading →: It’s Official — I Have Crossed the Line to the Dark Side of FIREI have hinted at it in previous posts, but today I am making it official. This was supposed to be the week I stepped away, threw off the bowlines, and retired. But… One More Year. The Dark Side that the FIRE community fights every day. A relentless condition, and somewhere…
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Continue reading →: Never Tell Me the Odds: Am I Risking My Good YearsI am causing my own stress. Every single day, and I mean every single day, I keep thinking about my number. When will we get there? How much are we saving this month? What does it mean when we get there? It’s this last one that has me completely wrapped…
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Continue reading →: Vacation Musings: Lessons on Relaxing in RetirementI got to thinking recently about vacations—their actual purpose, and what they will look like once retirement finally arrives. Back in the fall, I took a 10-day adventure of fun and frivolity to the tropical Caribbean island of Grenada. It was meant to be 10 days of just sitting back…
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Continue reading →: T-1: Mid-Course CorrectionsI have decided to keep the countdown clock as is. I am not leaving or retiring in a month as discussed in T-2. The countdown simply marks a passage of time for me, and when it hits zero, it will still feel like a big day. It might not be…
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Continue reading →: Random musings: Return of the Stormtroopers, The Empress, and the Hunt for JoyThe Return of the Stormtroopers With more and more Stormtroopers being mandated back to the Death Star office, I am enjoying work less. It has taken me years to get comfortable working by myself. Deep down, I truly expected that having more people around would mean more fun. More engagement.…
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