The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Daily workouts, or new habits to take forward? No two a day today, humidity and mindset sapped my strength. Good workout this morn tho.

Vids uploaded, MYMYM2022 - Sluggin it Real Time and another SLV in which I introduce different coffee making methods (second take). Oil plunges, as do markets. False flag? Watch daily charts as they are more detailed into how the markets move during these times.

Work throughout the week! That's a first in a long time!

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Have a good day!

Longest day of the year which means... the year is half over!

Stephen King, writing and reading. Word count inspiration or warning?

Cycling in Inner Mongolia (not Mongolia the country)

Chinese blogs continue, have to redo the coffee vid.

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Have a good one!

Continues to be a good time for cold beer as the humidity has spiked... you basically sit and sweat all day. Programmed the fans to go on and off at night.

Beer, smokes, exercise or what gets you through tech trouble shooting? 4K monitor not playing nicely with the other tech.

Two a day workouts continue

618 'shopping festival'

Reading some easy-ish Chinese books from a series calles The Long Interview. Will need to focus on HKS 5 books soon.

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Have a great start of week!

太牛了！Very cow! Means awesome or sarcastically not awesome. Any connection with the word cowabunga?

Reading in Chinese! A book about Wu Jun who came up with a coffee company here in China, though I'm not very familiar with the name.

I want to like After Effects, it's just not very user friendly. Tried to rotoscope something and got everything except the content aware fill which did not do its job. Ended up severely reducing my expectations and... moving over to Apple Motion.

Work tomorrow, NATs continue, rest day.

Dual workouts: again, not sure what else I'd do during that period of time.

Thinking of compiling a bit of an ebook to help spur creativity. Wouldn't be a huge ordeal, but something to try out.

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Getting tired of training or just need to change things up? What else would I do with my time, right?

More mandatory testing but travel restrictions are being eased. Still too expensive to go anywhere.

Fengtai is released! But others are locked up.

New vlog up: I read a beer can. Good practice but it did take some prep.

The Stand: I can see why Stephen King is regarded as a very good writer! Description!

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Have a good Thursday!

Residence permit! That's why we go to the PSB! Not for the work visa!

Very active day in that I did get my two workouts in + the bike journey to and from the PSB. Somewhere around 1500 calories burned, but then by night time I am hungry!

More lockdowns, but this smells more of some sort of hit against the bar scene in Beijing than anything else. Or have things just been lost already?

Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau has COVID... again! And now the country has relaxed vaxx requirements.

Markets getting crushed! But Chinese markets bounce! Rate hike on Wednesday?

Chinese prep: could I spend every day just using Chinese?!

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Have a good week!

Bianlifeng chicken! Don't get to have this very often any more!

Michael Jackson's Thriller - full album, what do you think? It's almost 40 ywara old! 7 of the 9 tracks were singles with the famous Thriller track coming out last. Good album, solid pop songs.

May You Make Your Movie updated, only a few remaining! Insta and YouTube updated.

Website up to date, thinking I might get someone to code the code I need to make this simpler.

New SLV up again. Today was about vegetables in Chinese!

Hope you had a good Tuesday!

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Busy weekend getting vids up and finally finishing one that took a while.

Hail stones and thunderstorms, first this year! Beijing does not grt hail very often.

MORE testing, lockdowns, etc.

SLV continues, neglected to post yesterday so posted this morning buuuut internet connection isnt so good for some reason. Need to focus on pronunciation while continuing with vocab

Work permit renewed, next PSB, I forget even why we go. Is this for the visa? lol!

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Hope you had a great weekend!

SLV language check in once again, I should have started this earlier!

Michio Kaku on Joe Ro - Types of civilizations

YouTube shorts, you ever watch those? Or is this just them trying to copy TikTok or Insta?

Lockdowns again!

After Effects still causing me issues!

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Have a good weekend!

HSK 5 test prep begins! July 16th is the test date! A liiiittttllee bit nervous! New challenge to myself: post a new video everyday until test day. Can it be done? How much of an improvement will I see? Will I be able to yak on like I do in English?

Lockdowns again? Why? Someone got the bug in a club and now they're all closed.

Gotta keep those NATs current if you want to enter stores! Booted from April Gourmet!

The Stand, Stephen King, and cocaine. Do drugs help creativity? Eeee, tough to say, but it does beg the question: is there anyone who has become a household name that isnt or wasnt hopped up on something?

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Have a good one!