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#10 How Our Stock Portfolio Grew to $7,824.96 This Week
This week, our portfolio demonstrated resilience and growth, closing at $7,824.96, reflecting a +2.52% increase compared to the previous week. Here's a breakdown of the key updates and strategies implemented over the past week:Options Expiry and New PositionsExpired Options: All options expiring today— MS (Morgan Stanley) and RBLX (Roblox)—expired…
The Gabriadze Theater in Tbilisi
| 13 views | Photo GeorgiaThough modest in size, The Gabriadze Theater is among the world’s preeminent cultural institutions. Presenting mature puppet performances full of depth and meaning, it has gained the respect and recognition of…
Replacing Roof - Part 1: Removing the old roofing
| 3 views | PhotoIn today's home remodeling series I'll share some epic experience on roof replacement works. If you have been following my blog for a while, you probably have noticed that in Spring 2015 we inherited an old and very bad…
House Of Food / Fontaine Palace in Liepāja
| 17 views | Photo LatviaHouse Of Food is a place to eat good, quick international food from all corners of the world. Louie Fontaine, the owner and rock musician, has designed the place with a feel similar to a 50’s American diner, with an…
Cafe bar Gradus in Gudauri
| 9 views | Photo GeorgiaCafe bar Gradus is located in Georgian ski resort town in Gudauri. Located just between the first and second ski lifts, this place offers great cuisine, drinks and lovely view to Caucasus mountains. It's outdoor…
Postcards from Gudauri
| 3 views |Gudauri is a popular ski resort located on the southern slopes of The Greater Caucasus Mountain Range in Georgia. The resort is situated in the Stepantsminda District, along the Georgian Military Highway near the Cross…
Turtle lake in Tbilisi
| 33 views | Photo GeorgiaTurtle lake is a direct English translation of Kus Tba (Georgian: კუს ტბა), a small lake at the outskirts of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, so named due to the perceived abundance of turtles living in these places.…
Linode: How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 12.04
| 26 views |Encrypted HTTPS websites are pretty much a hot topic nowadays. I have seen a lot noncommercial websites and blogs using HTTPS protocol lately. I believe cheap prices for certificates and possible SEO boost from Google…
Loft cleaning - Preparation works for replacing that leaky roof
| 1 views | PhotoIt was already last weeks of July, and we had bought already our return tickets back to Tbilisi, Georgia, and there was still one urgent task to complete if we wanted our rural house to survive upcoming rain and winter…
How to open a bottle of wine with a hand drill
| 1 views | PhotoThere are many options to open a bottle of wine without using a cork screwer, last summer I tried a new method - using an old school hand drill. f you have been following my blog and especially home remodeling series…
Stacking firewood in barn
| 3 views |Last summer taught me a lot of new things. I tried mowing grass with a scythe after which I "upgraded" to a trimmer. After all I was doing a new thing for me - home remodeling. In today's Piece of Life photo series I…
How to prepare traditional Solyanka soup
| 7 views | PhotoIn today's food blogger series I'll share a photo recipe on how to prepare traditional Solyanka soup. Solyanka is among my favorite soups and I prepare this some 3-4 times in a year. Pictures in this article are back…
Michelangelo Square in Florence, Italy
| 14 views | Photo ItalyMichelangelo Square is one of the best place in Florence to take picturesque panoramic views of Florence. We found this place thanks to suggestions on some travel guide and indeed, the pictures taken here are amazing.…
How To Take and Post-Process Night HDR Images
| 2 views |In today's digital school photography project I'll show how to take night HDR images and post-process them in Adobe Lightroom and Postmatix. A year ago - taking a decent night photo sounded mission impossible for me,…
Hotel Villa Carlota in Florence, Italy
| 6 views | Photo ItalyVilla Carlota hotel in Florence is a 4-star hotel. We stayed here overnight just day before New Year in 2015. We arrived here after paid a visit to the leaning tower of Pisa and short wanderings around Tuscany vineyards…
Vineyards in Tuscany, Italy
| 1 views |If there are a thousands things to see before we die - I believe to see vineyards in Tuscany are among them. At the end of December 2015, we traveled around region of Tuscany in Italy and to memorize those fascinating …
'I Fossi' Restaurant in San Gimignano, Italy
| 3 views | Photo ItalyI Fossi is a small roadside restaurant located in San Gimignano town in Italy. We arrived here just shortly we paid a visit to the Leaning tower of Pisa. We made a stop here by chance, just because noticed there is one…
Roadside cafe near Surami Mountain Pass
| 7 views | Photo GeorgiaI'm not quite sure what name this pace actually wears - I started to call it Perevelnaya (From Russian: Перевальная) which in English might sound like Next to the Mountain Pass. Since this cafeteria is actually located…
Cafe 'Jumis' in Skrunda
| 6 views | Photo LatviaCafe Jumis in Skrunda was among my top dining places during Summer 2015, because of it's close location to our rural house. Located next to the highway connecting Riga with Liepaja in Skrunda town, they serve a typical…
Cafe 'Pagrabiņš' in Kuldīga
| 9 views | Photo LatviaIf you are the lucky one and you have a chance to visit picturesque Latvian town of Kuldīga, make sure you make your dinning out at town's of of the best cafe's/ restaurant - Cafe Pagrabiņš. Or take a look of another…
Blog Traffic and Income Report for 2015 - 347,035 users / $9,819.71
| 3 views |This time of the year have come when I'm looking back on previous 2015 year. In today's article I will reveal some data behind the scenes - both traffic and income for whole year of 2015. If you have been following my…