The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Finally some warmer weather in Winnipeg  Washed my headphones! Fringe festival kicks off How was Cargo Bar at Assiniboine Park? The hummus pita nachos were pretty good. Outdoors, mosquitoes weren’t so bad Timbits for lunch  Daly Burger for dinner Steve, what’s happening to your health food?!? Let’s just keep in mind one thing … Show notes n tracks up on ⁠stevensirski.com⁠ Have a good one! --- Send...

Winnipeg weather  Ever think of publishing this earlier? Run this morning, 11km total but walked the last two cause wanted to get coffee from Timmies aaaannnddd… recorded a short podcast interview with a lady who works at Pennyloaf Bakery, the place I visited yesterday. That interview follows today’s episode! Spent the day going through all the mail that has accumulated over the last five years! T...

Winnipeg in the morning for ya Dropped the Zoom H4n, hope it still records well! Cleaning up and cleaning out, not as bad as I thought. How much time do you spend valuing your stuff? What if someone wanted to throw out your hard-drives or social media accounts? How would you respond? Your cable TV? Hey, it costs money and requires even more tech to use! A touch sore today from yesterday’s workout....

Busy weekend again! More and more this seems like a maintenance trip! Seeing people and catching up, it’s not like I’m getting much by way of cleaning done! Workouts in! 11km in the morning interspersed with pushups and squats then out to Pan Am Pool for my afternoon workout. Haven’t been in a gym in a long while! WTF is a tube steak?! Cool here in Winnipeg but will warm up next week as I’m leavin...

12 kms again in the morning! 1hr 14 min Boxing class done! They’ve been there for years! Dave Zellis reappears. King’s Head for a feed, good Indian food (at a British pub?) WHAT WAS THE EXCHANGE RATE TODAY RMB TO CAD?!? Plans for the weeks ahead Friday night jam session? So many places have closed down around the city Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a great weekend! --- Send in a v...

Ten ideas! I owe you four more! For places to visit… For things to get rid of… Website updated, finally! Met Connie, the elderly lady down the street, and talked for a bit Starbucks offers refills?! Niko’s for dinner, The Grove for pre dinner pints. Gyros with fries on top(?) and baklava for dessert! Proper good. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in a voice messa...

Current project with my language vlog: posting Chinese vids of the home town Have been asking people what their biggest problems are with learning a language, common are vocab, grammar, finding someone to speak with, and one person said motivation. Whoever puts a face on ChatGPT first will win the next round of language learning. 11.02km run in the morning, 1 hr 11 min, first time doing that. Calv...

What’s Winnipeg like? Cool in the morning  Sanfu in China - Izzz hot! Toad in the Hole! Wow has this place changed! Winnipeg! WTF is going on?!?! Got ID’d at the LC cuz it’s mandatory? Show notes n tracks hopefully on my site stevensirski.com Stay safe out there! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

Sound clip in the morning: Winnipeg. Lucky and Chatr, mobile sims have finally gotten easier in Canada! Homemade chilli! First in a long time. May have to make a return trip later this year. What else has changed? Some houses seem to be missing. Non-residents can open bank accounts and get credit cards… and cash advances! Woah! Sorry about those newsletters! Time has flown as I’ve basically gone a...

Made it! WINNIPEG! FOUR YEARS! Burgers anyone? Chinese people often say hamburgers are Western food and that it is fast food. Welp, I’ve had one basically every single day. Gotta get moving again! Canadian Tire for a slam ball, skipping rope and some other equipment to start cleaning things out. What’s changed Winnipeg? The ZOo has been knocked down and is now being turned into an apartment comple...

Almost to Winnipeg! Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan - houses on the right, businesses on the left Sound clips: Downtown Edmonton at the beginning, Heritage Trails at the end Correction about yesterday’s episode: it’s life insurance that pays for your iWatch Regina tonight and what does the middle of Canada look like? It gets pretty flat. Big farms. How is your travelling so far? Bourbon tasting...

Why is everybody wearing an Apple Watch? Insurance! Hey, did you do to that mall in Edmonton? Yes, West Edmonton Mall. HUGE place and that’s how you do a mall experience! The Royal Alberta Museum… my uncle is kinda famous, or at least known amongst the agricultural community. Downtown Edmonton, how was it? Kinda sketchy, but kinda empty. Rogers Place, now home to the Edmonton Oilers, known for the...

Happy USAmerican Independence Day Jet lagged! Do you know how dominoes work? It’s an actual game! Work stuff kinda done. Bourbon and how it’s made. Collecting stuff, keeping stuff, what gives? 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

Sitting in a hotel room just outside of Edmonton  A nervous feeling throughout, as if this is the one and only Four years out, and this is it. To see everybody once again and pick up where we left off.  Stayed away from the drink quite a bit, wanted to see if I could ‘hack’ jet lag. I think I’ve done a good job. Zinc before bed, just one tablet. Why haven’t I been using fish oil? Wouldn’t that hel...

Almost there! The flights so far: Beijing to Seoul to Vancouver and now to Edmonton Security security security Airport carpets: Vancouver for the win, Edmonton, how will you be? Food, how was it? 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

The night before the flight(s)! I use the exclamation point only cause it’s written. I’ve honestly forgotten how to travel. It took quite a while to get everything packed, still mangled to squeeze some work in there. And lots of the stuff I’m taking there won’t be coming back. Good! End of an era, innit? Four years of no travel, I’ve really become a situated man. Probably taking waaay too much stu...

Back still hurts but managed to not stress it during today’s workouts. Only 3.5 km at lunch, nothing else. Slow weights after work. Yes, I worked. And booked tickets. Friday we fly. Depart and arrive on the same day, which is a lot better. Flying a 737 MAX to Edmonton, not sure how I feel about that one. Had the credit card get flagged. Alipay and Wechat to allow foreign credit cards! I kinda like...

I really don’t want to talk about this trip as I’m honestly having doubts about it. It seems overly long to be going and very much easier to stay put. What’s the method for cancelling? Almost packed, Lego for the kids 10 ideas to cut down packing 1 No electronics  2 Only two shirts 3 One bag only  4 No toiletries  5 Carry on only - put cloth bag in backpack 6 One camera 7 Weekend only 8 Don’t go 9...

Looks like Wednesday is departure day. A little bit anxious about this trip, not sure if I’m going long enough or too long? Threw my back out this morning during a run so that’s not helping the situation. Was trying to jog and study flash cards at the same time. White people food - salads and lunchables  Gas cooking restaurants seem dangerous! Workouts in but had to slowwww down New track for you,...

Friday already! Very quiet out there as Dragon Boat weekend has seen people leave the city, not least because of… The weather! +39C when I was out for a run at lunch. Rather warm! 5 Kms in 27m 27s, roughly 4.35 miles. Then… 150 double unders 60 bench jumps 10 one arm push ups incline 10 assisted pistol squats Then… 100 pull ups 200 push ups 300 squats A bit of a workout! Slow weights at 5.00 and a...

SSAB - June 22, 2023 Ten ideas The use of honey: 1 In milk 2 On rice crackers 3 With salad dressing (apple cider vinegar) 4 On its own 5 In coffee or tea 6 With cottage cheese and almonds 7 With sparkling water 8 As a dip 9 On meats 10 With peanut butter How did yesterday sound? Not the best. Ohhh… today is 端午节 Dragon Boat Festival. Oops. Right, I supposed to be in Europe by now. Oops. How abou...

Solstice! Days will get shorter! How did yesterday sound? Today I’ll just record on my cell phone to see how that sounds. Mid-year review and your work put What else are you good at What else could i do with my life Transferrable skills? Satisfying to do? What did you want to accomplish this year? What helped or hindered you accomplish those things? What would you like to see done in the next six...

That’s what having nothing to do feels like! It’s like the Coronavirus all over again! Water, and lots of it. Gerolsteiner and other carbo beverages, gotta keep hydrated. Run at lunch, indoors  Setting up a new phone and all it’s lengthy password resetting! Newsletter out, and tweaked some things on the website. Thanks for listening! Show notes on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in a vo...

New phone? Not having any luck with the other. Cannot get Android Development Database to work. First big rainfall, thankfully! Hot and humid all weekend. That generator... That soccer runner kid (turns out he is 18, not 15) is now being fined and banned from live matches for the next year. Newsletter Happy Father's Day! Workouts in, rain during the day. Next six months, how will it go? Show notes...

Right! That soccer game! Messi and Argentina 2-0 win against Australia and a 15 yr old runs across the pitch! He was okay though cause they let him watch the rest of the game. Episode 39 is up and out! Joel Passante joins me on this episode to talk about movies, gaming, Winnipeg and pro wrestling. Now a live streamer on Twitch, Joel spends his time playing with things retro. Under the handle Rats...