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Busier retired than when working

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jdfruit

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It's been about 3 months since I last looked at TBCF. Got caught up on ICE's average day stuff, always interesting and informative. Went to Hawaii for two weeks in July, went on a dinner cruise for my 65th birthday. Got to zip line over a stream canyon, last run was 2800 ft & got up to about 60mph, this adrenaline junkie got a good fix. Got back to Cali, had to camp on a house project for about 3 weeks, my license stamp is on the line for structure design and certification to bldg department, lots left to correct. Fixing the back yard at my house in prep to sell next year, losing weight in the 100+ degree heat that has hit Cali over the last 6 weeks. Trying to get public employee retirement filed, needed a DD214, National Personnel records didn't have me on file, requested Air Force to provide records, Air Force didn't have me either. Got in contact with the Brig Gen at my last unit assignment, hopefully they can get me a 214. For all you people that have served in the military, keep your DD214 in a safe place, it may be worth more than you think. In my case it's worth near 400 bucks more on retirement.
 
JD:

Why are you retiring at 65? I too have retired but at least I can say I worked until 80, come on, put in another 15 years. Now those of us who have worked with no retirement have to pay into your public retirement.
 
I retired a year ago after 30 years with Henrico; am busier now than I was when working. In 5 years when can get early social security budget will ease
 
Conarb

I am not retiring to just sit down and do nothing. Will be starting a business next year in remote norcal, will be building hot rods. Loud, obnoxious, fast, and adrenaline scary machinery. My wife has rolled her eyes up and said "so you will become a juvenile delinquent" and my reply was "well, I can't be juvenile".

All the public agencies I worked for over the years have paid in all the matching funds for my retirement, except one that is the shortest time tenure, so I am not a "burden" on the current taxpayers.
 
JD:

I did a rocker arm upgrade to the Viper and just got the car back, while on the dyno it blew the guts out of the catalytic converters, I resisted the urge to weld pipes in there until the next smog test and installed new cats. The car had a Roe PCM on it but even with Sean Roe's help the car got in an infinite loop and they could only tune at and above red line. I had the PCM removed and bought a more modern superchips for it, the car definitely runs different, downshifting is a lot easier but trying to move in parking lots at 5 to 10 MPH without slipping the clutch is difficult. The cats blew because the car was running rich and they were loaded with carbon, it doesn't sound as nice now but sounds more like a race car than a street legal car. For some reason it just won't burn gas now that it's leaned back so I'm not doing my part to keep the economy running, interestingly Roe pointed me to a guy who gave me $250 for the old PCM, the only thing I can figure is that the PCM was locking the car into programmed settings and would only tune at the top end.

When you get going up in the woods let me know and I'll come up sometime, I've got nothing else to do, I'd like to see what you are doing, I need to get away from here anyway, this place is becoming so overpopulated with all these new housing blocks going up that you might as well live in the city, about 2 years ago we went down to Morgan Hill to spend the day with an old friend who lived with us when I was a college senior, Morgan Hill looked like country to me, and I had to think we should move down there to get away form the hordes of humanity here, and you are leaving there.

Did you see this? Amazing, they were going into "limp dick" mode due to an overheating issue but Chevy seems to have cured the problem. I'd like to see it run against the new Viper ACR with that huge 5'x2' wing on it, they say up to 2,000 pounds force on it, I can't keep my rear end on the ground it's so light with that 8 liter engine up front.
 
& = &

**jdfruit**,

Thank you for your service !

And all of the Veterans said, ...Amen ! :-D

& = &
 
Thanks everyone for the kind words

Just got the DD214 in the mail, can now finish the retirement paperwork. Took reading about a thousand pages of procedures for military record keeping at various policy dates to find out where my records should have been or alternate copy locations. Thank goodness for google and open source government documents. Wrote a letter to the alternate location headed by a very professional Brigadier General and got an official copy of a very old fuzzy microfilm but readable.

Will check back in when something interesting happens
 
My Navy retired daughter has a stack of her DD214s and has me keep I my files for her as well. And YAH she got a job this week and signed for apartment today so she will be moving out and hopefully taking her stuff with her. She had been job hunting since getting out in December. OF course going with her on that kept me from getting the Ferrari windshield trim cleaned and repainted so it can be reinstalled after the new windshield was put in yesterday--new trim was NLA unobtainium.
 
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OF course going with her on that kept me from getting the Ferrari windshield trim cleaned and repainted so it can be reinstalled after the new windshield was put in yesterday--new trim was NLA unobtainium.
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Whattt! Around here only firemen can afford to drive Ferraris.
 
conarb said:
Whattt! Around here only firemen can afford to drive Ferraris.
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I have been a firefighter since 1972 and never made a dime on it-volunteer-- has cost me a bunch including years ago passing the hat to put fuel in the fire engine.

FWIIW I got the Ferrari Mondial 8 after going car shopping with specs and a budget--They wanted too much for the new Dodge Charger that did not drive right and I found the Ferrari that better met the specs--seats 4, room for weeks worth of groceries preferably 2 door preferably manual trans and needed to drive right-- for 60% of the cost of the Dodge-- and since it was 25 years old could put antique tags on so no personal property taxes and cheap insurance
 
Frank:

Yeah, I read that Mondials are a real investment, recently a 1991 Mondial T with only a couple of thousand miles went for $103,000 at auction. I don't know what's wrong with you our firemen really rake it in; one however, is being forced to give back some of his undue rewards.

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Six years after an East Bay fire chief egregiously inflated his pension, the Contra Costa retirement board on Wednesday rolled it back 28 percent.The audacity of the ***** had earned local, state and national attention, making retired Chief Peter Nowicki a poster child for pension-spiking and his case a leading example of why reform was desperately needed.

At age 50, he retired in 2009 from the tiny Moraga Orinda Fire District and traded his $194,000 salary for a starting pension of $241,000 a year. ¹
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¹ http://www.contracostatimes.com/editorial/ci_28785424/contra-costa-times-editorial-retirement-board-wisely-cuts
 
Ohh well I must live in wrong state/county my pension is only 53% of salary, which was 1/2 his, and the Mondial 8s are closer to 20k-- mine is 82 and has 48 000 miles now was 31 000 when I got it
 
Frank said:
Ohh well I must live in wrong state/county my pension is only 53% of salary, which was 1/2 his, and the Mondial 8s are closer to 20k-- mine is 82 and has 48 000 miles now was 31 000 when I got it
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Well Frank, were you here and had a salary like Nowicki you could get the new Ferrari FF as a four seater car.
 
I like wagons--rain car is E500 wagon

Also bought used so previous owner ate the depreciation

Also the t has half again the horsepower of the 8 300 vs 215
 
Had some fun last October. If you have a bucket list, this is a good one to put on it.

 
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Nice try JD but the cars in Cuba are way cooler. Just returned, can't believe the condition of many of the 50's Chevy's and Fords. Paint jobs really shine.

Glad someone can retire from this game.

Still having fun with access after all these years.
 
Not having fun with access related work any more; once I retired the Attorneys found out and I have been hounded by them to do defense work. Turned down most of them due to difficult property Owners and I need to get my house refreshed and ready to sell. Going to downsize and get rid of mortgage payment that is about the median income of this state.

Post pics from Cuba, the cars there must be gems.
 
See my post in classifieds; large code book and reference book library for sale. I need to reduce "stuff" to get house sold and get moved to NorCal near Chico.
 
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