Plans are nothing, planning is everything.

The title of this blog is a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower that I learned of this past week. It got me to thinking. When I got married (at the tender age of 17) we had a plan. Finish high school and attend a four year university. Get a great job and have 2.4 kids. And here's the kicker; retire by age 44. Well thanks to the marvel of the "Copper 7", we became one of the 1% of its users to have a child. Our firstborn arrived 10 days after my 19th birthday...anyway, today it occurred to me that I have a little over four months to aachieve my goal of retirement at age 44. Not bloody likely. So much for plans, eh?