About Me

jIM

I am a 35yo married and father of twins. I will update the photos once in a while. They were born 3 months early in March of 2008 and went through a tough first 4 months. They are now doing well.

Retirement checkpoints
( ) $1.5 M needed age 53 2026
( ) $750k needed age 45 2018
( ) $375k needed age 37 2010
( ) $180k needed age 29 2002

I had 200k before the drop in 2008. I need to set aside around 200k in next 2.5 years to get early retirement.

[ ] max 401k for me
[ ] max 401k for wife
[x] max Roth for me
[x] max Roth for wife
[x] start taxable portfolio
[ ] 3 months expenses in EF
[ ] 9 months expenses in taxable account
[ ] open college savings account for kids
[ ] dividend income equals half of annual expenses
[ ] pay off 2nd mortgage by 2013
[ ] pay off 1st mortgage by 2026
[ ] finance next car for 3 years or less
[ ] pay cash for my next car around 2016
[ ] start a TIPs 10 year bond ladder by 2016.

Free internet radio

December 8th, 2008 at 11:16 am

I use a free internet radio station called pandora. If you listen to music on a PC, pandora will do a good job of two things:

Playing the artists you like
Finding other music similar to the artists

Here is a url

http://www.pandora.com/

I hope that works. I have been listening to pandora for more than 2 years.

You can customize the stations to play what you want. Tell it which songs you like or dislike as it plays them and it adjusts what it plays. For example last xmas I created a few holiday stations and around 40% of the songs I did not like. This year when it is playing those stations I like most of the songs it is playing based on my feedback.

FREE!

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3 Responses to “Free internet radio”

disneysteve Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 04:26 pm

I often listen to internet radio at work, either live365.com or aol's radio or itunes radio. Lots of station and genre choices.
cptacek Says:
December 8th, 2008 at 08:09 pm

I've listened to this station before. It kinda works, except for some reason, I always get George Straight and Garth Brooks, even if I start out with a Cher song. Thanks, pandora, for telling me I like country!
SingleGuyMoney Says:
December 9th, 2008 at 06:13 am

You can also try live365.com, they have alot of different stations and it is also free.

jIM_Ohio is Investing to retire early

Instead of making retirement a question, make it a sport- can I do it and how fast?

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