Artem's Blog

Phew! Finally I have some free time. It turns out that I need to read my own blog sometimes. I saw Darya’s post today and was very surprised that she made a post. Frankly, I had no idea…

July was quite a busy month for me. And although it’s not over yet, I already feel very tired. A part of this is because I started working on new project — eHarmony and it takes some time and efforts to dig in. The project is very dynamic and interesting.

This month me and Darya started using the new approach for accounting at home. The method is called «4 Envelopes» made popular by Max Kraynov. The method itself is very simple: you take your family income, subtract savings for this month (or 2 weeks), scheduled bills and payments, financial goals amounts. The rest part is distributed among 4 envelopes. Each envelope is for one week (3 envelopes for 8 days, 1 for 7 for this month). And then you try to only use 1 envelope during a week.
If there’s something left at the end of the week, you put money to another envelope called «TO SPEND». And that’s my favorite part . So far this method works pretty well for our family, so we’ll keep using it in the future.

Kraynov and Co. also released a web-app to facilitate this method. I personally tried to use it but unfortunately back then (I don’t know if it’s resolved now) I couldn’t complete the registration because of software glitches, so I gave it for for my own system (based on Google Spreadsheets, hehe).

When I lived alone, I used to track every expense and it worked okay for me (except the fact that it was very annoying). It doesn’t work that well for 1+ people.

Now, what else… Oh, I’ve just read that my friends purchased iPhone 3G. Congrats!

Akademos, Inc. website got updated with a neat and lightweight design. Pleasant surprise and nice job, folks!

I started riding my bicycle yesterday (I bought it 3 years ago and used it for about 3 weeks max. since then so it’s like new). And so I went to the downtown yesterday (just to see what’s new). An office building where we used to rent an office when I worked for Akademos is now closed for maintenance. I always regret that I don’t wear a photo camera with me so I can shoot photos (yet don’t do anything to address this problem, heh ).

Alright, it’s time for another bicycle ride. It’s a great supplement to my muay-thai trainings. I had 35 of them so far and I’m really happy with my physical shape again The down side of this is that I’m black and blue. But this is another story.