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Except for one little thing...
I slept many, many hours last night.
I just finished reading Lee Eisenberg's The Number, which I've seen recommended many places. It's about a guy who decides to write a book on the factors you should look into when figuring out what you need to retire, the conversations he's had, and some biographies of some nearly random people.
The author has the bizarre ability to make his sentences and paragraphs perfectly readable while making chapters inscrutable. What is his point? What is he recommending? Who is his audience? I don't know. He clearly wants everyone to be his audience, but he mostly only talks about people who can save several million. That sort of crap is starting to get old. And he suddenly loses his grip of the language when writing bullet points.
If it never occurred to you that retirement planning could be about what you will do in your retirement and not just about how to save up for it, then apparently you might find this book refreshing and exciting. I just found it annoying. Reading this book for information on how to decide if you're ready to retire is like reading Moby Dick when you're in the mood for a novel. Yeah, it's in there somewhere, but that's not really what it's all about.
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I have almost finished reviewing my finances for the last month. The month went well. Stocks rose. I know what I spent and what I spent it on and am happy with that. Worst purchase: cheeseburger at McDonalds, too cold for the "cheese" to melt. Best purchase: underwear with robots on it. (No, you may not look.) Things are going according to plan. Except for that one little part where I can't find my $600 rebate check. It's around here somewhere.
Favorite title of the day: "Bagels and Lox with Nurses and Docs" - Students can attend this event to meet and mingle with their medical providers.
I just finished reading Lee Eisenberg's The Number, which I've seen recommended many places. It's about a guy who decides to write a book on the factors you should look into when figuring out what you need to retire, the conversations he's had, and some biographies of some nearly random people.
The author has the bizarre ability to make his sentences and paragraphs perfectly readable while making chapters inscrutable. What is his point? What is he recommending? Who is his audience? I don't know. He clearly wants everyone to be his audience, but he mostly only talks about people who can save several million. That sort of crap is starting to get old. And he suddenly loses his grip of the language when writing bullet points.
If it never occurred to you that retirement planning could be about what you will do in your retirement and not just about how to save up for it, then apparently you might find this book refreshing and exciting. I just found it annoying. Reading this book for information on how to decide if you're ready to retire is like reading Moby Dick when you're in the mood for a novel. Yeah, it's in there somewhere, but that's not really what it's all about.
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I have almost finished reviewing my finances for the last month. The month went well. Stocks rose. I know what I spent and what I spent it on and am happy with that. Worst purchase: cheeseburger at McDonalds, too cold for the "cheese" to melt. Best purchase: underwear with robots on it. (No, you may not look.) Things are going according to plan. Except for that one little part where I can't find my $600 rebate check. It's around here somewhere.
Favorite title of the day: "Bagels and Lox with Nurses and Docs" - Students can attend this event to meet and mingle with their medical providers.
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Must be nice to have that problem -- is 2 million enough to retire on? Sigh.
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Oh, I did hate the jargon. The poor guy was trying to be funny but he's not good at it. I can recognize good humor in others, though.
If he broadened his interview pool, he wouldn't be able to hang out on golf courses and in, uh, motorcycle gangs.
I only learned one thing (which may not be true)--about the retirement plans of folks living at the turn of the century, after so many people moved to the city and started getting forcibly retired but before Social Security. They moved in with their children, and their children took care of them because if they didn't, they would be written out of the will. Funny, but maybe that's just what the rich old people did.
Also, it's only the second time I've heard that sometimes people use money as an excuse to do something they want to do for some other reason that they don't really want to think about. (He dragged his family to a totally "alien" land--another state--supposedly for financial reasons but really because he wasn't done trying new things yet.)