The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Ahhhh, this is nice… silence and nothing to do… no plans anyway. What could I do? I could do this, or this, or this… Should I take the week off? From what? Talking into a microphone? UNEDITED?!? TikTok video count: 510k, seems to be topping out Yesterday’s episode was rough! I was sooo tired! Currently working my way through a 30-day Chinese speaking challenge: 1 minute per day. EQ: so this is som...

Episode 42 done!  Learned a lot about plugins, EQ and other post-production sound! We got paid! Now to… pay off some stuff. Workout in! Lunchtime done! 5km - 37 min, is something wrong? 5.30km?? Medicine ball Double unders Jumps Push ups Half pistols Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

Would you sell your company for $100,000? Better yet, if you had $100k, would you buy a business? New YouTube video editor! Capcut competitor! You don’t have to pay for a video editor any more, going to cancel my FCX subscription! Not available on iPhone just yet Deload week! Or will it just take some time to figure out how to work in the work outs. Feeling better today, is it lack of sleep? Or th...

Weekend food success! Stir fry worked! Ganmaole! We’ll see if SSP42 goes ahead TikTok video hits 450,000! How to monetize? SSP40 is out, have you heard? SSP41 work begins One workout done - is this old age, laziness or a de-load week?! COVID’s back! Again! Get your shots! Cause they worked last time!! Show notes n tracks up in stevensirski.com Have a good start of week! --- Send in a voice message...

319k views?!? Hello TikTok! Haaa let’s see how far it goes! What else for content creation?! How about that computer? Workouts in! But a bit lighter than the usual. Focused on slow, that was it. 5km at lunch Medicine ball workout  After work kbells Done! Episode 40! Award-winning Director of Photography Aigul Nurbulatova joins me to talk about her work and the life of a DoP on set! Clips follow to...

iOS vs Android Sirski Unplugged? New name?? Cold toes, temperature dropping, time to start moisturizing  Episode 40 in the final stages! Maotai coffee, what about a hotel stay? How much does Maotai even cost? And their tosck price? Could I learn another culture? Is that a bigger jump than upskilling? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in a voice message: https://p...

Well, that’s not good. Computer won’t charge! Chinese numbers: 666 = liu liu liu = very good, awesome! 888 = fa fa fa = excellent, wish you great success 520 = wu er ni = sounds like "I love you" 996 = jiu jiu liu = working 9am to 9pm for six days a week! Workouts in! Truncated, but… got them done. What if I did the typical “split” for workouts?? Run time: 5km total ~34 min, about 6m 30s per km Af...

Homemade bread! I’ll take those carbs! With butter! How about some wine? How was Chinese class? All about work! Not bad sentences, but I tend to repeat simple sentences. SSP40 coming along. Newsletters never did get done cause… I spent the evening translating a Tims coffee receipt. Took an hour! Then writing Chinese homework! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in...

Cereal for breakfast? When was the last time you had any? What kind? I bought the heart-shaped Cherrios for the gf but we’ve never opened them.  “Three grams of soluble fiber daily from whole grain oat foods, like Cheerios cereal, in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease,” the official Cheerios website states. -yea, so just eat better! You don’t need the...

End of week! Episode 40 not done. Will have time this weekend. Workouts in! Lunch: runs n pull ups n push ups n squats with weight vest -100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats Time: 1hr 15m After work: slow kbells Can alcohol be a supplement?? Why is it getting a bad rep but marijuana isn’t?? Healthy sperm winner?? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good weekend! --- Send in a voice...

Chinese class going well, learning a little about grammar. Shorter work days coming up?? Episode 40 progress  Newsletter no progress  Rest day calorie intake… and expenditure. Previous episodes, feeling a little shy about posting! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

Feedforward? WTF is that?! “Connect” sessions? Changing the names, but are they changing the ways? Workouts in! -6.5km run at lunch, about 6.18 pace -kbell rounds w run for 15 minutes -100 double unders Then x4 rounds of -10 bench jumps -10 one arm pushups -10 half pistol squats And what about that weight gain? High intensity snacking? Lack of sleep?? Lots of mosquitos! Working on Episode 40! FCX...

Tracking foods in, workout calories, and the problems therein. What could I swap out on non-workout days? Or do I just start working out every day? Washing clothes: this is why I used to “bunch up” my workouts, because of the need to do laundry in the winter months.  Newsletter being written. Episode 40 in the works, Episode 42 being talked about. How was Chinese class? Show notes n tracks up on s...

Weekend done! Slept most of it! Workouts in! Lunch: 6.5km, medicine ball After work: maces n clubs Website refreshed, though still might be problematic. And why were so many of your episodes 27m 34s long?? And 9/11 so many years ago yet its changes remain. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good start of week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stev...

Website is down… oops Empanadas for dinner! Workouts in! Runs 100 pull ups 200 push ups 300 squats Total time: 1 hr 14 min 6.81 km jog in the morning… woke up and couldn’t get back to bed. Was thinking I should’ve gone for a run before bed. Seemed smoggy but it really wasn’t, more of a fog than poisonous gases… I think. Rain cleared that out of the air later. Episode 40… delayed, cause of all this...

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

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...

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podca...

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...

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 takin...

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! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

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?...

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 n...

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...

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 ti...