An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs & make video's, work out at the gym, and many more. Contact me
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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…
Borjomi Cafe 1+2
| 5 views | Photo GeorgiaIf you are looking for a decent cafeteria in Borjomi I can recommend one - Borjomi Cafe 1+2 located close to the entrance of Borjomi park. I paid a visit here and tried different dishes in the middle of September 2015…
Motsameta Monastery near Kutaisi in Georgia
| 49 views | Photo GeorgiaMotsameta monastery is one of the most spectacular sites I have visited while being living in Georgia. To get here yo will need either to own your vehicle or hire a taxi, probably there are organized tours as well…
Water Reflections on Lisi Lake
| 0 views |She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city. - Roman Payne, The Wanderess Spectacular water reflection photography done in Tbilisi, Republic of…
Cost of Living in Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia)
| 20 views |This post is a result of an experiment I performed for one month in October 2015, I counted my everyday expenses and summed it up to see how much actually it costs to live in Georgia. This information might be useful if…
Simple Aspic (Meat Jelly, Kholodets) Recipe
| 36 views | PhotoIn today's food blogger's series I will show how to prepare a really tasty and delicious homemade aspic out of pig's trotters. I'm not sure how popular an aspic is in the Western world, but it is a super popular in…
Third Traffic Spike: More than 7,500 Daily Users
| 2 views |A huge traffic surge to this website was experienced on November 15 when total unique user count reached 7,732. The vast majority of them were coming from Turkey. Update: Learn how I got 10,000 Page views in a day…
How to add MailChimp Signup Form for Drupal
| 7 views |After being blogging for more than two years already and finally reached about 40,000 monthly unique visitors to my blog I decided it's time to set up an email newsletter. I knew there are some Drupal modules already,…
Postcards from Tbilisi
| 0 views |Tbilisi is city which have inspired many great poets, writers and of course travelers. Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy and even Marco Polo have spent some time in Tbilisi. Who knows maybe the sulfur…
Gelati Monastery in Georgia
| 25 views | Photo GeorgiaGelati monastery together with Bagrati Cathderal are one of the main sights in this region (Imereti) in Georgia. Although I have been living in Georgia since 2011, first I visited this site just in the Spring 2015…
How To Make Floating Banana Photo Trick (Photoshop / Lightroom)
| 0 views | PhotoI created this simple floating banana image using a tripod, camera and Adobe Ligtrooms + A little retouching in Adobe Photoshop. I wanted to make the image look even better so I did a HDR image. Floating Banana…
Restaurant Dzveli Gelati near Motsameta
| 9 views | Photo GeorgiaRestaurant Dzveli Gelati (Old Gelati in English) is located outside of Kutaisi in small village Motsameta. I had a chance to have a dinner here during a short one day tour around Kutaisi (Bagrati Cathedral, Gelati …
Masterclass in Asian Cuisine
| 3 views | PhotoAt the start of November 2015 I took a master class in Asian Cuisine. The master class happened in a lovely Georgian restaurant Sareckela in Tbilisi and was led by a gourmet chef from Russia Natalia Chvileva. You can…
October 2015 Blog Traffic and Income Report 39,928 Users / $549.49
| 3 views |Today we are celebrating this blog's #22 traffic and income report. Unbelievable how fast times goes by. It seems just yesterday I sat at my laptop's monitor, installed Drupal on Linode VPS, registered a domain in…
Restaurant Sareckela in Tbilisi
| 4 views | Photo GeorgiaRestaurant Sarackela is located in Tbilisi on A.Tsereteli Avenue 72, it serves both European and Georgian cuisine, and has one of the most passionate chefs in the town - Natalia Chivileva. One of the nice features this…
Prometheus Cave near Kutaisi (Georgia)
| 29 views | Photo GeorgiaPrometheus cave is one of the interesting places I have visited lately in Georgia. In fact that's the second cave I have visited here. The first one is called Sataplia Cave. In case you are into caves and speleology I…
Painting Floor - Adding Base Layer of Paint
| 1 views | PhotoAfter we cleaned up our space from junk, I painted walls and ceilings in white using just a water based paint. Both our future temporary bedroom and kitchen started look decent. Then my father helped me with electrical…
My Outdoor Working Place During Last Summer (2015)
| 1 views | PhotoOwning an old rural house is nice, and it's even nicer if you can both live and work from there. Since I'm into a thing called a digital nomad (place doesn't matter as long as there is an internet connection), during…
Replacing Electrical Wiring and Installing Outlets
| 11 views | PhotoOn June 25th electricity was connected to our old rural house, and that was the next big issue to fix soon. The old electrical wiring was done like some 30-40 years ago and it just wasn't safe. Luckily I'm familiar with…
Homemade Noodles in Spicy Sauce
| 2 views | PhotoNovember started with a huge goal - not to spend a tetri eating outside, instead we decided to cook good food at home. Today I will show how to prepare a really fresh egg pasta noodles in spicy sauce. I really love to…
Abandoned Armenian Church in Tbilisi (Surb Nshan / St. Nikoghayos)
| 52 views | Photo GeorgiaTbilisi never ends to surprise (at least me). I thought I'm quite familiar with all the places in Tbilisi's Old Town, but turned out - I was wrong. It was a Halloween eve and we decided to head to Shardeni (Tbilisi Old…