How Long 'Til Retirement? Part Infinite.

Arbitrarily, I have about 12 years to retirement.

At the end of Thursday, July 24, I'm not sure I'm going to survive another twelve hours.

And this is all coming a week before I have to head back to the cubicle farm, where I went today to pick out my cubicle. Working from home has been utterly awesome; I'm sad to see it go away because it made other people sad.

Sadder still to be dealing with some arbitrary editing conventions that exist only in the netherworld, not necessarily in any of our written standards. I have, at this point, given up on trying to outguess said netherworld.

That appears to have paid off, since the last word from the netherworld is that the situation is "error prone," and will be stopped. Until the next directive arrives, of course.

A Landmark Number

I've been waiting a while to record a number like this.

It's not a big number as retirement savings go. And it's a volatile number, given the instability of markets and such. But it is, for the first time, a number above $500,000, which feels like a landmark to me.

T. Rowe Price says I should have 3.5 to 5.5 times my annual salary saved in retirement at my age. So on paper that feels good. But this retirement money is for my wife and I, and what we've saved is joint, so I don't know exactly where I should be. But I am at least ten years off from retirement, likely more. I hope we can keep squirreling money away and do crazy things like pay off our house.