The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

End of the week! Time to work! Can’t wait for the semester to be over. Power Automate - looks like Zapier but SLOW AF! Aaaand… why am I learning this? Workouts in! 110 pull ups (105 weighted with 5 kg), 220 push ups, 335 squats. Took 1 hr 13 min to complete, then a 7.00km run in 46.42. Figured, get it done cause if I stop, would I start again? Heading into an easier week but my mind is on the summ...

Some articles on Warren Buffett https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/read-the-wsjs-early-coverage-of-warren-buffett-01b09b9c? What’s inside Berkshire Hathaway https://www.wsj.com/business/what-is-berkshire-hathaway-warren-buffett-a6d0d968? $130 for a writing APP?!?! Could I make something similar for the language vlog? Summer plans, do I really want to be living in Canada? Current schedule is uns...

Apple and Synchron - Would you connect to your device? What holds this back? What if a country such as China takes the lead in this type of technology? What if aliens “force-feed” their children information?https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-brain-computer-interface-9ec69919?No go for Winnipeg - oh. Will have to look for something else and some way else. Why DID I sign another contract with a universi...

Peace in Ukraine? Could it be? Neighbour moving home, why? One of the other teachers? LEAVING! One semester is enough! And if she’s leaving after one semester, what am I to think? What do other people think about Beijing? And what about the Chinese economy? I know I said I’d talk about it. How bad is China’s economy? https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a? Disappearing...

Hey Happy Mother’s Day! Steve, did you forget? Only on Friday. Back to class, should I continue? What did I say?? What will I do this summer? Essay reading, getting into the groove. Using a new APP: GoodNotes 6. Much better than default MarkUp APP. This just in, BREAKING! Trade war truce! Is that a surprise?! Stonks sore, GOLD drops! 18-40  Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal...

End of week! Kinda! Make up class tomorrow. Touched a student today! She learned how to make a paper koala in class. New Pope! Pope Leo XIV! USAmerican. Did Trump call it? Will this Pope be at odds with the Chinese cardinals?!Workout in! 7.02km in 47.34, then down to the gym for 105 or 110 pull ups, 210 push ups, 315 squats all with 5kg weights. Took over an hour to do. Throat is doing okay, but s...

Smells like rain. It is! First thunderstorm! How is the throat? Better. Hamstrings are still a hurtin. Make up class today so began at 8am. Can’t say this is a sustainable schedule nor do I really want to repeat it! Winnipeg Jets lost… my internet connection cut out just before the end of the game. New SLV podcast out! Came across this guy on TikTok who LAMBASTS popular salesmen online. H&S Mo...

Owie! Legs are a hurting! Run done, 7.26km in 50.10. Went right to the weight room after for a workout and hit the legs. I would stiffen up during the day. Getting hit with something, throat is sore, fatigued, but brain is still okay. 板蓝根 Banlangen, is a Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, only has a 1000 year history in use. (Who had it before?) Main component is Isatis indigotica root (IIR)....

Buffet stepping down! TikTok rebrands to Lemon-8?! Or just creating a new AP?! YouTube is 20! Can you remember when it started? And HOW it started? How is China’s economy? Is the US going to buy Chinese energy? Electric and coal stocks are going up. And will there be a new baby boom? I bet they’ll change the science and, therefore, the thinking, of when and how people can have babies. Donate to th...

May the fifth be with you! Calves are a hurtin’! Why? Walking walking walking. Fatigued, tired, and a bit worn out. It’s been a year. Workouts in! 7.00km in the morning, then steel clubs in the afternoon. Beginning to mark essays, ChatGPT wouldn’t cut it. Still need to highlight the problem areas. Can’t wait til the end of semester. New vid up on the language vlog. And what an exciting game! Winni...

End of week and things are looking up! Where would you digital visa yourself? Workouts in! 7.00 km this morning in 53minutes, though I think the clouds affected the count. Afternoon workout: 105 pull ups, 210 push ups, 315 squats, half weighted, half not. What’s this idea I have for the language vlog? And how do I create these courses? Talking about Circle Communities. Donate to the show! PayPal l...

It’s the weekend! Five days off and we’re heading into the home stretch. 劳动节快乐！ Meeting with the admin today, do I want to continue? Not really. I tell her I spend my evenings trying to automate language learning, “You’re the enemy!” she responds! Ha! But what’s next? An interesting job idea AND… I think I may have found a good place for a website. More costly than a regular website, but I t...

End of the month, let the break begin! Looking forward to the break. Taxes done, the people’s are due today, self-employed on June 15th. Payment still due today. Turns out I’m no longer eligible for the GST credit in Canada. New ice cream shop on campus! Could they confiscate GOLD (again)? What if it’s needed for the space race or something similar? Got a run in, but barely any weights. Had to fin...

Exam done! That looks like a lot of writing to be read. How long am I supposed to spend on each? Passport gotten! June 15th is expiry day! UH OH! Where else could I go? May have found a photo editor, which would help immensely. Carney is Prime Minister, the Liberals continue, but is he so liberal? Aaaand what’s South Africa like? Spoke with the colleagues today! Surprising! New ice cream shop on c...

Almost the end of the month! Already! Dessert party on the weekend, how was it? People are leaving, others are staying. Who and why? GOLD a falling, so is silver. Barrick Gold changing their name: Barrick Mining. Ticker will stay the same in Canada: ABX.John Paulson buying gold… MINES!https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/gold-prices-investing-alaska-mine-john-paulson-6952438a? New video up for th...

End of week! Sunday classes? Moved. Online for the make up class. Students were happy. Spent the day typing out Russian declensions, all to be put into ElevenLabs. Workouts in! 4.20km in 26.39, then to the gym for 105 pull ups with a 5kg weight, 210 push ups, 315 squats, both with 5kg weight. Makes me think, what’s the longevity of this workout? Then back out for another 4.00 km in 24.59. Yes, 8 k...

A full day and yet what do you get done? The problem with working from home on your own…Early morning run, only 4km, but if I go, then I never end up doing my language studies. Spent the day trying to get some automations done and got a few of them to work.-Update Google Sheets when file is added to Google Drive-Schedule to Instagram-Update spreadsheet with podcast infoDid NOT get a computer-based...

And KERPLUNK goes GOLD! Canadian BANKS a popping! Chinese stonks a turning? New SLV episode up! Episode 37! Available on all fine podcasting networks, near and far! Thursday and Friday off, when do I make these up? Sunday? Or two weeks from now? Workout in, 7.33km in 44.25, then a full body workout with lighter weights but higher reps before my usual Wednesday lunch time meeting. Donate to the sho...

Breakfast pass denied! Or at least they told me to stop taking food. BOOO!GOLD UP, stocks mixed, COT… going down?!Had much of the day to myself today, very nice. Could get used to this. I’m a meme! Apparently they’ve cropped my face and put me into the WeChat emoji list. Not sure what to think of this. Reading and Listening exam done, kinda easy! Now, make up days? And Pope Francis has passed away...

Happy Easter! Done for another year. Exam tomorrow so no classes! Same with next week! But then I gotta mark. Lab leak theory published on US Govt websites, nothing surprising. Workouts in! 7.00 km done in 43.37. Then a lighter weight workout before breakfast. Off to the aviation museum this weekend! Big planes and lots of stuff, video in the works. Kinda got burned, but not much. Chinese stonks a...

It’s Holy Thursday, not Good Thursday. And today it’s Good Friday. Easter weekend. Markets closed. Not Greece, if not China, and Canada at some point, but, what if…?I think Astrill is dead. BUT, can’t access TikTok through Let’s Go VPN. Going with Lets GO VPN for a few months. Workouts in! Sluggish, but done. Maybe, is it the food that I’m eating? Lots of oil? Lots of rice. Never usually ate like...

Is it the heat and the change of weather that’s wearing me out? Taking afternoon naps again… first in a long time. Visa submitted! Now we wait! Pick up April 27th. Means I have three more months in China before I need a new visa. Will I get one??What if… I went to Greece? Or Korea? With the language vlog I could video the whole thing and document not just the travels but the people and language. T...

Run done but workout tampered… still feeling laggy. BARELY got to the gym, but that’s also because I was thinking of continuing to work on the language vlog. Preparing for exam week = no classes next Tuesday! Exam Tuesday night. SLV Episode 36 out! Newsletter count ticking higher, as are subscriptions to the YouTube channel. I see these memes of Trump by people around the world and I can’t help bu...

Should’ve recorded this earlier, but… had to lie down. Feeling rather tired. So had a a bit of a lay down after work. Is the Chinese market bottoming? Seems stocks have generally been going up, if only incrementally and lots of the companies I was following from late 2024 are now turning around once again after months of stagnation. Working on the language vlog podcast. Done the editing, now need...

Monday begins and back in the Changping! Full week this time? Workouts in! Morning run - 7km in 47min, then stretching, then mace bells and steel clubs. New language vlog out! Chinese progress check! Went to the Changping PSB! How was it? Very clean, new and… empty. And!… the university didn’t give me all the documents soooo gotta go back later on. Thinking… this is another reason I don’t really w...