Blog Archive: October 2021

The Grand Documentary of 2018

29 October, 2021 | Documentaries | 14 seen

2018 was very special. Here is a brief recap in a 25-minute long documentary.

Some shorts from Tbilisi, relocating to Jūrmala. A lot of snow. Building a baby crib, chilling. chilling a lot. Picking up a baby name. First meeting with a little person. First bathing. Many things were done for the first time. Relocating back to Georgia. And many more. Enjoy!

Prometheus Epic Hotel & Spa near Tskaltubo

28 October, 2021 | Hotel reviews | 41 seen

Located just some 500 meters from Prometheus Cave, Prometheus Epic Hotel & Spa provides accommodations with a restaurant, free private parking, an outdoor swimming pool, and a bar.

We booked this hotel for a 2-night stay at the start of September during our Kutaisi and area trip. This was a pretty affordable stay, in total we paid about EUR 110 for a two-day stay.

With a garden, the property also has a terrace. The property features a spa center, free WiFi throughout the property and a 24-hour front desk.

Unfortunetly during our stay here (September) there was some heavy rain, but still we enjoyed the hot pools. 

Prometheus Epic Hotel & Spa offers 4-star accommodations with a sauna and hot tub.

The nearest airport is Kutaisi International, 15 mi from the accommodations, and the property offers a paid airport shuttle service.

For one night we arranged a taxi transfer to Kutaisi and were asked about GEL 60 (one way)

In short, this was a very nice stay, we traveled forth and back to Tskaltubo and Kutaisi from here. I would recommend a stay here. 

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Sold all Bitcoin, Seb Mutual funds, Baltic Horzion and DelfinGroup Stock

27 October, 2021 | Stock Portfolio | 16 seen

Yesterday, on October 25, 2021, I sold all of the Bitcoin holdings I had with Coinbase PRO. Additionally, I sold off all my investments with SEB mutual funds and stocks at Nasdaq Baltic: Baltic Horizon, and DelfinGroup.

I did this because I have started another interesting 52-week challenge - buying Apple stock for the next 52 weeks and I want to focus on that challenge. 

As an options trader, I want to collect at least 100 shares with Apple stock and start selling covered calls on it (subscribe to my newsletter here)

Selling BTC seems was just at the right time, now when there are a few Bitcoin ETF's available at the stock market, and I guess I will explore my options selling puts with BITO ETF.

Anyhow, I sold BTC with about 48% gain in less than 5 months (I was buying once a week small bits using the so-called dollar-cost averaging method)

I guess I will re-start my Bitcoin 52-week challenge again. Starting next week. Bitcoin has proven to work best using dollar-cost averaging.

SEB funds? Yeah, they are fine, but not very interesting to me. Baltic stocks, yeah why not, but I, for now, I'll better stick with Apple and…

Top 7 Best Selling laptops with 11th Gen Intel Core i9 Processor

25 October, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 80 seen

In this article, I've listed the top 7 best selling laptops on Amazon with the latest 11th gen Intel Core i9 processor

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer on the product page on Amazon.

• 64GB high-bandwidth DDR4 RAM to smoothly run multiple applications and browser tabs all at once; 2TB PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive provides fast bootup, ample storage space and speedy data transfer
• 11th Genernation Intel Core i9-11900H Processor (8 Cores, 16 Threads, 24MB Cache, 2.50 GHz base frequency, up to 4.90 GHz max turbo frequency), packing with staggering performance typically only…

Kļavu Lapas Laidos

22 October, 2021 | Tourism objects | 6 seen

Kļavu lapas Laidos - an attempt to catch some falling colorful leaves. Laidi manor and more. October 17, 2021 Dji Mavic Air 2, Galaxy A52

Eagle Canyon / Gorge

20 October, 2021 | Tourism objects | 63 seen

Eagle Canyon also Eagle Gorge or Artsivi Gorge is located close to the town of Dedoplitskaro in Georgia.

The natural monument represents a unique complex consisting of two sites. The first one is a limestone rock canyon, while the other is an adjacent forested area, where the Khornabuji fortress was built (V c).

I first discovered this great canyon at the start of June 2021, during a Vashlovani trip. 

There is a little rangers cabin at the main entrance inside the canyon

The canyon with a picturesque landscape is a home to several birds of prey (eagle, vulture etc.). Looking at the hanging cliffs from the rocky slopes of the gorge, it is possible to observe nests of eagles and other rare/extinct plants, which cannot be seen anywhere else in Georgia.

The length is of the pedestrian route is 1 km, which can be covered in 1 hour.

The length of the pedestrian route to Khornabuji fortress is 0.5 km and it can be covered in 30 minutes.

The natural monument itself is in 4 km to the north of Dedoplistskaro. 2 km of the road is paved and the other 2 km is a gravel road laid in the forest.

• Tbilisi -…

Lake Zvirgzdu

19 October, 2021 | Lakes | 25 seen

Lake Zvirgzdu is located in Kurzeme historical region on the border of Kuldīga and Alsunga municipalities.

There are several campsites available at Lake Zvirgzdu, with one of the most popular being - Ezermaļi.

I discovered this place by a chance, back in September 2021, while randomly driving around the area

There are 6 farmsteads on the shore of the lake, the V1264 highway runs along the western end. 

In 1976, the Latvian feature film "Lake Sonata" was shot on the shore of the lake. 

Top 9 Best selling 360Hz FHD laptops (popular among gaming & business)

18 October, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 24 seen

Competitive gaming?  Think 360Hz display!

• Top 15 Best Selling 240Hz laptops (gaming & business)
• Top 17 Best Selling Gaming Laptops with 144hz Display

A quick note: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer on the product page on Amazon.

• GeForce RTX 3070: NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX—with new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and streaming multiprocessors to give the most realistic ray-traced graphics and improved performance
• More Power, More Cores: The 8-Core 10th Gen Intel Core i7-10875H processor provides the ultimate level of performance with up to 5.1GHz Max…

Valmiera & Cēsis 2021

15 October, 2021 | Tourism objects | 10 seen

Valmiera & Cēsis from a drone flight.

Took a quick day trip from Riga on January 2, 2021, to visit some lesser-known places

DJI Mavic Air 2, music by Scott Holmes - Discovery

Invest in These 5 Stocks From The Dow Jones list With Covered Calls and Collect Dividend

14 October, 2021 | Options trading | 24 seen

One of my preferred investing strategies is investing in stocks from The Dogs of The Dow List.  Currently (2021), these are the Small Dogs of The Dow stocks: DOW, VZ, WBA, CSCO, and KO.

In 2021 PFE was replaced by VZ in the Small Dogs list. 

In today's article, I will take a quick glimpse at a potential return from investing in these five stocks with options (covered calls) + collecting the dividend during the road.

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For this example, I'm going to virtually buy 100 shares at each company. All prices below are listed as of October 8, 2021

Ticker

Price

Shares

value

Div

Yearly Dividend

Monthly Options

DOW

$58.71

100

$5,871.00

4.77%

$280.00

$219.00

VZ

$53.24

100

$5,324.00

4.81%

$256.00

$65.00

WBA

$47.38

100

$4,738.00

4.03%

$191.00

$154.00

CSCO

$55.08

100

$5,508.00

2.69%

$148.00

$…

Big Shiraki Abandoned Soviet Airfield in Georgia

13 October, 2021 | Military Heritage | 438 seen

If you are into military heritage or have some interest in Soviet history - Big Shiraki airfield in the Georgian dessert (steppe) might be an interesting object to visit in Georgia.

I had not a single idea there even exsit such place here in Georgia, but at the astart of June, during a Vashlovani trip, a German friend took us to this place.

Not an expert on Soviet or any other military I was told that during the Soviet Era Sukhoi figher jets were based here. At start it looked bit unrealistic, as the small angars looked capable of storing some smaller aircraft not a figherjet, but latter I learned the Sukhoi airplane could actually be stored here.

Around 1950, the Soviet government constructed a military airbase known as Greater Shiraki (Russian: Большие Шираки, Bol'shiye Shiraki) in the steppe. It was home to the 178th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment (Russian: 168-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Краснознамённый полк), which took part in the Soviet–Afghan War and returned to Georgia in 1989.

Nowadays, the airfield is used as a grassland by local farmers

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the remaining 30 Su-24 attack…

Restaurant Lakeside Tskaltubo

12 October, 2021 | Restaurant reviews | 44 seen

Restaurant Lakeside is located in the town of Tskaltubo, Georgia on the lake Tsivi.

First discovered and visited at the start of September 2021

In the evening life music was performed. Really chill atmosphere. Food was good.

Top 5 Best Selling Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 Laptops

11 October, 2021 | Laptop Reviews | 341 seen

Shatter the boundaries of what’s possible with NVIDIA® Quadro RTX™ 5000. Powered by the NVIDIA Turing™ architecture and the NVIDIA RTX™ platform, it fuses ray tracing, deep learning, and advanced shading to supercharge next-generation workflows. Creative and technical professionals can make more informed decisions faster and tackle demanding design and visualization workloads with ease.

In this article I've listed top 5 best selling laptops with Nvidia Quadro RTX 5000 on Amazon

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to Amazon.com, by clicking on links on this page and by making a purchase on the Amazon site, I might earn an affiliate income from that. Prices for laptop computers listed on this page are retrieved using Amazon Product Advertising API and is updated daily. For actual prices please refer to the product page on Amazon.

• 15.6'' UHD (3840*2160) NanoEdge matte display;…

Investing With Covered Calls in Dow Inc. 365 days challenge / 8 year blog anniversary

10 October, 2021 | Options trading | 28 seen

Here at ReinisFischer.com I love challenges, whether they are about blogging, learning new skills, or financial oriented.

As my blog is turning 8 years old on October 10, 2021, I decided to launch another interesting 365 days challenge - Investing with Covered Calls in Dow Inc. stock for one year.

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Dow Inc. is an American commodity chemical company. It was spun off DowDuPont on April 1, 2019, at which time it became a public company and was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered in Midland, Michigan.

In case you re wondering what is a covered call:
The term covered call refers to a financial transaction in which the investor selling call options owns an equivalent amount of the underlying security. To execute this, an investor who holds a long position in an asset then writes (sells) call options on that same asset to generate an income stream. The investor's long position in the asset is the cover because it means the seller can deliver the shares if the buyer of the call…

Surami Fortress

7 October, 2021 | Military Heritage | 29 seen

Surami Fortress is located in the town of Surami, not far from Khashuri. The fortress itself is located on a rocky mountain.

If you have been traveling arund Georgia, especially by the Tbilisi - Kutaisi - Batumi road, you probably have noticed this fortress, as I do. Actually I've been passing by this place quite often, but bever actually visited. Now, I decided to change that, and when returining from Kutaisi made a quick stop here, to fly a drone around, and learn that Surami is quite an interesting little town. 

The fortress is an important work of historical, monumental art. Surami Castle is located at the crossroads of two main roads; One goes west through the Likhi Passes and the other goes south through the Borjomi Gorge.

Surami fortress is a complex, which includes a fence-fortress, St.George's Church, a tower and a palace. The castle had a tunnel that runs down to 12-16 meters, down, it is blocked. According to legend, the castle was connected to the Ascension's Church and the Suramula River, from where drinking water was brought to the prison.

It is historically unknown who and when constructed Surami Fortress "on top of a high…