Blog Archive: June 2020
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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BMY Covered Call Surprise and NKE Put Spread
On January 10, I was holding a covered call on Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), a dividend-paying stock, with the expectation that it would expire worthless. With an hour left before the market closed, BMY was trading above my strike price, and I was confident in the position.With the situation in BMY seemingly under control, I opened a weekly put…
Saint Dimitri Tesalonikeli Fathers Moanstery near Mtksheta
| 6 views | Photo GeorgiaThis is a little monastery near Mtskheta, best reached via Mtskheta-Shiomghvime monastery road. That's how we actually discovered this place at the end of May 2020 - during a random drive to the Shio-Mgvime monastery,…
Average Monthly Salary in European Union 2020
| 320 views |In 2020 three were 27 member states in the European Union (EU), 19 of the 27 EU member states have adopted the euro (€) as their common currency. In this article, I've compared the gross monthly average salary for 2020…
Oskars Kalpaks Museum and Memorial Place "Airītes"
| 9 views | Photo LatviaOskars Kalpaks Museum and Memorial Place "Airītes" is a branch of the Latvian War Museum established in memory of the hero of the Latvian War of Independence Colonel Oskars Kalpaks in "Airītes", Zirņi Parish, Saldus…
Church of the Archangels of Mchadijvari
| 9 views | Photo GeorgiaMchadijvari Archangels Church is an architectural and historical monument in Georgia, in the center of the village of Mchadijvari. We discovered this church when searching for the poppy fields in Georgia, at the…
Khatsiri Forest Park
| 11 views | Photo GeorgiaKhatsiri Forest park is a nice recreational area next to the town of Tianeti in Georgia. We discovered this place by accident after spending a day at Kuzh Park in Tianeti (sometimes we love to drive to the Tianeti…
Minimum Wages in European Union 2020
| 9 views |In 2020 there were 21 out of 27 European Union member states with an official minimum wage set by the government. In this article I've listed them all, also this is the first year I'm not including data for the UK in…
Eat For Fit - Healty Food Home Delivery in Tbilisi
| 100 views |Eat for fit is my favorite healthy food home delivery service here in Tbilisi. Recently these loss-weight / dietary food delivery companies have started to pop up like mushrooms in the forest after the rain here in…
Tsilkani cathedral
| 21 views | Photo GeorgiaThe Tsilkani cathedral of the Mother of God is a Georgian Orthodox church in the village of Tsilkani, Mtskheta Municipality, in Georgia's eastern region of Mtskheta-Mtianeti. Originally built in the 4th century, the…
How to Install Drupal with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 - Linode Guide
| 84 views |In this article, you will learn how to setup webserver for serving Drupal websites running with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.4, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 For the following tutorial, I used very much the information…
File Permissions for gmap_markers.js
| 6 views |Time after time I'm facing this issue with gmap markers. As mostly this happens when I'm doing something on the server side with file permissions, I decided to keep the notes here is the problem GMap is unable to…
Simple CSS trick to Make Table Responsive
| 33 views |Working on the OptionsBrew.com project (website is powered by Drupal 8) I faced the following responsive table issue while browsing content with a table on smaller screens (phone)Broken Table on a smaller screenLuckily…
Poppy fields near Marneuli
| 55 views |We love poppy fields, we have featured them a couple of times here at the Piece of Life series Beautiful Poppy Field Near P104 (Jaunpils-Tukums) Road (Latvia) Railroad crossing in Skrunda municipality, Latvia Today we…
Drupal 7 Fix: SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1231 Variable 'sql_mode' can't be set to the value of 'NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER'.
| 929 views |I was migrating Drupal 7 website to a newer infrastructure (PHP 7.4) and during the migration process when tried to connect to the MySQL database I faced following error - SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access…
May 2020 Dividend Income Report - $225.17
| 8 views |Welcome to the thirty-seventh (#37) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in May 2020.Just like the previous month of April, in May we also spent in a…
Top 30 Dividend Paying Stocks in Germany (DAX Index)
| 354 views |Investing in Germany is quite easy, you could do so by buying German stocks. There are many German stocks to invest in, but in this article, I will talk about Germany's blue-chip stocks, stocks from the DAX index The …