<html><head></head><body>When the pain of work exceeds the discomfort of minimal income, retirement time.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 21, 2022 10:33:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">One retires when one has enough money to retire comfortably, after a<br>realistic look at what things one "has to have" without working for<br>more income. One also must look at one's health, including family<br>medical history. I LOVE programming and computer security but time for<br>other things now. Surprisingly, I don't miss it. (I still do a little<br>and maintain my home network and leased server in NJ.) Yesterday I was<br>in the ocean. I was on Saturday too.<br><br>A dear friend never stopped working, saying "I can't afford to retire."<br>His doctor made him stop. He died only about two years after that<br>without having a great retirement with his wonderful second wife.<br><br>Another friend co-owned a business property where they each had a<br>medical practice. When the co-owner dropped dead of a heart attack at<br>60 my friend decided to retire on his 60th birthday and had a blast!<br>It is important to compute how much a year one can spend to last to<br>one's estimated end of life. Contact the Social Security Admin to<br>find out what your retirement income will be if you retire at different<br>ages. Yes, there always will be Social Security for us; politicians<br>won't risk losing the votes to end it.<br><br>Your retirement decision should involve a deep reflection on what one<br>really wants to do, where to do it, and how much money it requires.<br>You may need more play money as you will have more hours in a day to play.<br>Have a plan for how to spend your time that should NOT include TV!<br>For me, it includes finishing my big singing Tesla coil and learning to<br>play the piano as well as the ocean and travel.<br><br>Many people retire to a low-cost-of-living state, though Georgia is near<br>the low end here. My brother retired to Chattanooga, Tennessee on the<br>side of a mountain 5 minutes from downtown. Tennesee and Florida have<br>no state income taxes, though FL property taxes are high. Many parts<br>of Florida (and Georgia) have a low cost of living. South Florida where<br>I now live not so much!<br><br>Do you need to buy a new high-end car every few years? What about other<br>expensive things? A consultant once said: If you want to buy something<br>expensive, maybe a house on a lake, new car, etc. do the following.<br>Compute hour hourly take home salary by knocking off 33% of your annual<br>income for Fed income taxes. Maybe add 6% for GA state taxes, totalling<br>about 40%. Then divide by the standard 2000 hour work year. Lastly,<br>divide the cost of that item by your take home hourly rate. That is<br>the number of hours of your life that you must work to have that thing.<br>All of a sudden many things are not nearly so important.<br><br>All should be saving a substantial portion of one's income in retirement<br>savings, such as an IRA or Roth IRA. Spend the time to watch your<br>investments and change as needed. Yeah, the economy and stock market<br>and real estate is all coming down but try to save still.<br><br>I know that Mike Warfield is having a great retirement in Athens, GA<br>and traveling.<br><br>Bob<br><br>On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:55:43PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm beginning to look at retirement. I'm on a top500 supercomputer<br>project that the contract has another 8 years on. Not sure I have another<br>8 years I want to put in. Turning 60 in a few months and having much<br>fun making enameled flowers and jewelry.<br></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On June 20, 2022 1:45:20 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Even more excellent news. Your "pdf join" comment got me searching and<br>very quickly finding on my system:<br><br> tiffcp Can concatenate single-page TIFF files into one TIFF file<br><br> tiff2pdf Will convert a TIFF file into a PDF file<br><br>Just what I need, though I haven't tried yet.<br><br>The docs I'm copying are my Piper Arrow's logbooks, going back to 1973,<br>before handing them to a mechanic for my Annual inspection in case he<br>loses them. I've been meaning to do this for 30 years. I have a<br>little<br>more time now that I'm retired but still too much busyness. Yes, it's<br>possible for a programmer to retire.<br><br>Bob<br><br>On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:05:20PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">Excellent news!<br><br>I've not done much multi page scanning. Vague memory of doing<br></blockquote>something in xsane, picking a base name and a folder and doing pdf scan<br>then a pdf join?<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;">I think I loaded the scan feeder and kicked it off from xsane. <br><br>On June 20, 2022 11:37:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen<br></blockquote><transam@verysecurelinux.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">Jim,<br><br>Thanks VERY MUCH for that link!<br><br>I discovered that I had installed older versions of that software<br></blockquote></blockquote>years<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">ago but it didn't work.<br><br>Did RPM erase and then installed the latest version and then it<br></blockquote></blockquote>still<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">would not work. It appeared to need a daemon running.<br><br>It would say "Connecting to PC" and then time out.<br><br>I think that, fumbling around, I started:<br><br> /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/brscan-skey-exe<br><br>and then it worked like a champ ... other than creating a separate<br></blockquote></blockquote>TIF<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">file for each page of 50-200 page docs.<br><br>ALE comes through again!<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Bob<br><br>On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:00:32PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><br></blockquote></blockquote><br><a href="https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all">https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all</a><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On June 17, 2022 4:01:05 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale@ale.org><br></blockquote>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;">I want to get the scanner capability of a Brother<br></blockquote></blockquote>printer/scanner/Fax<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;">device to work with one of my<br>older Linux systems.<br><br>Brother model MFC-7360N. (MFC means Multi Function Center) Has<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>USB<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;">jack<br><br>Linux systems (anyone will do):<br><br>CentOS release 6.10 (Final)<br><br>Slackware 14.2<br><br>Thanks so much for any ideas (and The Cobler's children have no<br></blockquote></blockquote>shoes,<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;">to be fixed real soon now!)<br><br>Bob Toxen<br>transam@VerySecureLinux.com (ALE account)<br>bob@VerySecureLinux.com (individual account)<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>