The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Maotai n coffee? 怎么样？Dunno, never tried. But apparently it’s the milk that is flavoured.

How was Chinese class?

Website updated!

That generator…

What was life like before the pandemic?

Show notes n tracks up in stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

All caught up on the daily casts? Did you know podcasts were originally called audioblogs (one word) in the 1980s??

Laser internet? IPFS? Two tier internet? What comes after quantum computing? What technology now is in its infancy and seems like a crackpot waste of time, and what was that before transistors were invented?

Typhoons a go go as southern China gets slammed again, and that’s pushing up all this smog and humidity to the North… or so it seems.

Workouts in! Indoor running at lunchtime

-4 km 

Then x4

-10 Devil’s press

-12 One arm kbell swings

-8 ground-level one arm push up declines

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Forgot to publish yesterday’s episode! 

Newsletter is out! Follow on Substack!

Labour day - oil will go down, gold beaten down so it will attract big money

How was Chinese class?

How many times have I failed?

-podcast over the years

-blog, newsletter

-investing?!?

How much enthusiasm do you need?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

New week! Workouts in! Changed it up a little…

Lunch: 

-6km run

-14kg kbell lifts n swings interspersed with another short run

After work:

-mace and club swings

Newsletter written, needs to be checked

Spent allllll day Saturday purging my sites

Gotta stop saying it’s getting cooler cause every time I say it, it just gets more humid.

Show notes n tracks up on my website stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

New month!

Quantum computing - seems a little ways’ away. Who would’ve thought personal computers would become such a big thing after the 1980s?

Workouts in!

5km total:

one lap

20 pull ups

40 push ups

60 squats

Last round: 40 pull ups, 80 push ups, 120 squats = killer!

After work workout: nice n easy heavy kbell lifts. Thinking about getting something new, either a new kbell, a rope or maybe taking classes.

But got them in.

Last Chinese translation class… what did I learn?

The mp3 automation works! Now to figure out how to prompt for a pic and mux the necessary html

GOLD turning down, but is this temporary?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Weekend is up, have a good one!

That’ll do it for August!

Apple autocorrect is terrible and iOS lags Android. And to install apps is even worse.

Chinese translation class, one more to go.

It was hungry ghost festival yesterday

Raw or cooked? I’ve heard arguments for both.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good end of August!

That six-month target… maybe not as easy as I thought it would be

-Mid-Autumn Festival Sept 29th

-National Day break Oct 1 to 5

Hulk Hogan on Joe Rogan - imagine if that was your day job?!

Posting the notes from my translation classes on my language substack. Will also be renaming that soon.

Japan and their dirty seawater! China bans fish imports! HUGE hit to the industry.

Elephants! 44,000 plays?!? And how will I deal with my creative projects going forward? 

And how are those pcast episodes coming along?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Feeling sniffly, not sure if it’s all the construction work or something else brewing…

The Trump card!

Blacklash?!?! Trump is a brutha now?!? The idea of being arrested to fit in.

Prigozhin: an out for the war?

Chinese classes: how are they going and what’s the plan? Done with one package of Chinese lessons.

Figuring out a bit more of Automator… convert to mp3 = modifying built-in services.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Last week of August already!

Workouts done, but afternoon was a bit gentle cause of nature’s call.

5km

500 skips

Wide stance lunge step ups - good for that hip joint

Two-arm pushups with alternate leg lifts

The value of an hour a day - how much can you progress in a year?

Construction and those cameras

Saw the Barbie movie - not bad!

Oppenheimer comes out August 30, 2023

Is school really all that bad? So what if it doesn’t teach you finance, or driving, or house management, but if you didn’t receive a basic education

How do I get a mugshot?

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week!

If you knew you could hit a financial target in six months, would you do what’s needed to get it done? If it meant you didn’t have a social life, but you could keep your health up, would you do it?

Apparently my website has been busted and I haven’t really been paying attention to it. Oops.

Working on Episodes 40 & 41! Piece by piece, will get these done! But… who’s next?

Workouts in!

Lunch time changed it up a little:

-Run 2 km

-10 pull ups

-20 push ups

-30 squats

Then:

-Run one lap (800 metres?)

-10-20 pull ups

-20-40 push ups

-30-60 squats

TOTAL = 70 pull ups, 140 push ups, 210 squats + about 4.4km?

10 - 2km

20 - 800

20 800

20 800

After work slow kbells, lots of carries and hangs

Tuna, pasta + laoganma 

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good weekend!