The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Work week starts already?! Sunday afternoon lapsed into Sunday evening (as it always does) with a few bottles of wine. Not sure how often I want that to happen. NaNoWriMo2021 is almost done, how has your first draft gone? I haven't been writing as much mostly because I was aiming for a collection of short stories and I finished a lot of it last week so I'm happy with my accomplishments so far. Preparation begins for December Drumming (or Drumming December), in which I'll be recording some sort of drum or percussion element every single day throughout the month. This is a lead up to the Jamuary Song-A-Day challenge that will take place the first month of the new year. Chinese class is intense but I am learning. Target date for the HSK 5 test is March which gives me about three or four months of preparation. Teacher read out a paragraph during class and I could understand most of it but couldn't answer the questions just because I didn't know the vocabulary. New virus VARIANT, we're on the OMICRON now! How many more to go?! Is this biowarfare or an example of how we could feed (good) drugs to the people? Ie, why does a virus have to be bad, could it be good? Show notes up on stevensirski.com! Have a good start of week!

Vibrators are percussive instruments... and the forming of a muscle knot. Left calf muscle seems to be in the process of knotting hence the need for beating it with my muscle pounder. It's my Thursday night as I work tomorrow yet Saturday night will be spent prepping for Chinese class. ESL industry for life or is there life after it? Same form, or different? What would change? If Apple ever holds a keynote with automatic translation, my job is pretty much gone. Sooo, what are some ideas going forward? Show notes up on stevensirski.com, have a good weekend, hope you had a great week.

Happy Thanksgiving Day to our USAmerican comrades! (Canada's is in October... shorter growing season.)

Pies in Beijing... expensive? $50 CAD for a 9" pie. Asked if I could eat the whole thing and get it for free... nope.

End of November... if you could do your hobby or creative idea as business, what would be the lame, boring, I don't want to do this I'm just gonna put in the time thing that you need to do?

Show notes up on stevensirski.com.

Have a good holiday!

Chinese studies, vocab, and the plan or idea to work from home in order to master the HSK 6 word list next year. Beard oil? Is it even necessary? Do people even notice? I guess they do if I was asked if I was going to start using some (I don't really care to). And about those Theta Alpha waves, what are they and how do they work? Are they any useful? Show notes on stevensirski.com, have a great day!

Cool jobs... washing windows?

NaNoWriMo update, how many words can you write in a day? Made a title page, does that count?

Blog notes have gotten shorter, I know. Still looking for a way to automate some things.

Theta Alpha waves, ever tried listening to them? Apparently helps with focus, not sure how to test this.

Evolution of a drummer? Do you play the same music throughout your career or do you change it up drastically? Prepping for December Drumming.

Show notes up on stevensirski.com.

Have a good day!

NO TIME TO DIE... or is there? SPOILERS!....

New Bond movie, interesting transition. They did offer up a few clues, one that another agent will become 007, but not James Bond.

My idea: cloned or stored DNA via nanobot technology.

I just wanted him to be happy.

I guess if he came back, would he recognize his daughter?

Chinese class, need to better prepare. Not just homework but review and then prepare the next lesson. We can get through a chapter a week which means 12 more weeks until this book is done.

A lot more confident for sure as I'm able to hear in confined space how other people are using the language.

Show notes on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week!

Hyperproductivity and today's world. Are we always being busy and productive or just busy? Is this a bad thing? What would Thomas Edison think? And what was the chronological timeline of his invention of the light bulb? When did the idea first come to him and when was it fully realized, actualized, and deployed? Doing your job yet saving something in the tank for after to get your own work done. Keeping that motivation, inspiration, drive, desire. Your company employs you to do a job that was the idea of another person. How would you want the people who work for you, who support your idea (if only for the paycheque) to work? Filosophical Fridays... no, not a new trend. Just thinking. And about those plants... Show notes on stevensirski.com. Have a good weekend!

Great ideas disappear, better ideas stick around.

AI in China... am I in the wrong profession?

Something in the air recently, might get some plants for the apartment.

Show notes on stevensirski.com... have a great day!

Making a job for yourself, would you do it? How would you do it? What if I lost my job tomorrow, would I be able to keep earning an income and, if so, how would I go about ensuring that income?

These days can be busy, especially if I try to work on Chinese in between clients.

New Starbucks opening!

Show notes on stevensirski.com

Hope the week is going well!

Ever washed a wall? Should be easy but it was the one behind my bed so I had to move stuff. Overall, looks better.

Found the audio book version of 三体, Three Body Problem. People say it is a good book but that may be because President Obama commented on it. I found it a little confusing and boring. But will try to read along in Chinese!

A digression on how Chinese characters are formed.

Learning about dictionary comprehension in Python. Could I just spend time learning how to better use the operating system I have now?

NaNoWriMo and writing prompts, are they even useful?

Show notes on stevensirski.com.

Have a good day!