So if you have a $ 100,000 portfolio, and inflation is running at a steady 2 % a year, you can withdraw $ 4,000 the first year, $ 4,080 the next, $ 4,162 the next, and so on, until you finally keel over at 95.
Today was quite possibly the apotheosis of all things blah, with a downpour of such epic proportions that the tree outside our house finally had enough and keeledover.