Does the above mean you'll be in SoCal sometime when I'm not? That's too bad. I'd be highly amused by the idea of us traveling a combined 5000+ miles to meet up. :-)

It's interesting how talking about money is gauche, particularly regarding talking to other people in your workplace about how your salaries compare. As far as retirement funds go, I'm also in the mutual funds and not individual stocks. It's been an ... interesting year for all of that.