The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

No Murph today as it was a low energy day. Was it the rain, the woman screaming at 4.00am or just a deload week? Taobao shopping! Let's read it again! In Flander's Fields. Still hard to fight back welling up. Ukrainian Iiterature celebrated on Nov 9th, what to read? Why USAmerican power endures, some thoughts. -it is resilient -others have a stake in it -grew up in relative isolation from the Euro...

Double 11 begins! 8.00pm kick off the sales deals begin and... who's buying? Locked down, locked out, higher prices, who has money for this stuff? I wonder what the sale figures will be like this year. MacBook is back and seems fine, replaced the whole bottom chunk of the computer! Talked about alternatives. Chinese convo meet up and DELTA catch up: why bother reading the books when you can just r...

PSB run done for another year Computer is done... can get a new one for the same price as replacing the old one. NAT tracking... what's it good for? I mean, who exactly are they tracking? For the public good, okay, but if all the isolation hasnt changed anything yet, why is this still going on? One was tracked to the toilet on the second floor of a building... soooo... they didn't have it before?...

Blood moon! Beaver blood moon! Feel like garbage cause... jiaozi! Shouldnt have gotten he fish jiaozi silly silly silly. Out all day. Used MacBooks for 6000rmb! Why bother fixing the old one? Mandatory testing for the next three days cause... why not? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

Laba zhou and dumplings as today is the first day of winter according to the Chinese calendar. April Gourmet closed! New cases detectedf How why and when will this end! LOL! Computer update: we need to reformat your computer. 4500 for the logic board... why not just get a new computer? Stream through Anchor.fm, Spotify, Apple and Google or head over to my website stevensirski.com for archivesf Hav...

Weekend already... would mean something if work didnt bleed all over it. My choice, right? Uploading delays... working on getting a new provider. Feeling MUCH better, do I recover quicker or what is going on? But it IS getting cold outside! Winter jacket out! Half Murph done today, a little slower on the runs but I think I did the rounds faster. For reference: 2 mile warm up + 1 mile = 29.53 1 mil...

Computer is in the shop and now Im figuring out how to work with the iPad. Garlic and the sniffles Deep tissue and physio therapy, probably one of the reasons I'd like to stay in China for now. Stick with what works! Chinese lessons on Skype and vocab building And NaNoWriMo. stevensirski.com Have a look :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

Sorry about the late upload but was having device connection issues. May have to look into alternates now as this has gotten bad. Workout modification: triphaisic training. Shift the harder days to Friday so your body can recover over the weekend to be ready for Monday's workout. Will take the computer in for repair tomorrow as the new battery is in. Wrote another chapter for The Art of Learning a...

New month Hang Seng Index falls... been going down for a while, but did we just see a bottom? So-called window dressing days are the last three days of the month + first two of the next. Big movement on the Shenzhen market New HSK 7-9 test starts in November. Skip HSK 5 and go for higher? How much content do we need? Produce produce produce, but who's watching? How much do you watch? How much do y...

Halloween... does it matter? I didn't go anywhere haha Beijing leaves and the wind is picking up. PSB visit... took a while. Had to update registration beforehand too. New photos... wow have I changed over the years! Seoul, South Korea! What happened? Take care of each other out there. Ladies, you take care too! Heard a lot of women I know undergoing some sort of surgery or repair-ation of some so...

End of month already! Days fly by? How are things for you? Skype drops another meeting... so lost that content but learned some things. Chinese classes everywhere and every time... what have I done? Changing a light bulb. And another half Murph done again + an afternoon workout. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good weekend! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify....

Chinese lessons on Skype... this lady is better. Apple store stopover... 1500 rmb later... Future of work: those who want will automate what they can, but what will the others do? How will they contribute? Moreover, what will you produce? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

Whooops! Taobao lessons! This was crazy! How many did I book?! Apple support chat! Yea I gotta take this computer in as it's shutting down randomly. Not against getting a new computer but... how long will they take to get in?! Tune in tomorrow to hear about the future of work: those who want will automate what they can, but what will the others do? How will they contribute? Moreover, what will you...

Chinese lessons on Taobao? Trying to restart that language engine. Women be the breadwinners? How would you react? Would you be okay with that? Authentic materials... how authentic is authentic? REALLY authentic or just kinda authentic? Old People emojis! Don't give a thumbs up or a heart or you'll be OLD! (According to 16-29 year olds.) Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!...

Hard not to be geopolitical sometimes... Snowden steals govt information, proclaims the US govt is bad bad bad for spying, reveals he has more... sooo... he basically abused his own role for personal gain? Now he has Russian citizenship. What a dick. Palace intrigue or just... intriguing? Hu Jintao leaves / removed from Great Hall of the People. Xi Jinping reelected! No surprise! The surpise was.....

Half Murph again, back is sore but I think it is muscular tightness. Would love to get out of the city but if i do... how will i delta? Discourse analysis... ah, that's the difference: spoken, natural languages vs language learning materials Learned some more things: Found out that I can easily combine video clips on Mac using Quicktime! This changes everything! Chang with espresso Show notes n tr...

20.2022! Website being hit by something... Stinky ginko trees Two songs of China... Raining Blood, Welcome to the Jungle Two guys, five bottles of wine, and microphone... yeap.. SSP34 up! It's a long one! Show notes tracks n vids up on stevensirski.com Have a good one! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stevensirski/message

A clarification on using abbreviations..., guess you can't say what really happened, ie, yep, shit broke. You had to wait. But honestly, just use plain language. I have a secret... I had McDonalds shhhh (on Monday) OBS software... learned how to blur the background. The only problem? It just looks like Im blurring out all the junk in the background. And... could I automate it's opening? DELTA task...

Assisted connection devices not always operational on every device And wtf is an MI? Major incident? WTF IA MI WWASE? what the fuck is a major incident when we all speak English? The Art of War and how it applies to learning a language DELTA course progress - starting Unit 7 The Institute of Human Anatomy - they use real cadavers! -What alcohol does to your body -very informative and focuses on th...

If not the news, then what? Reading the Global Times. I bought it for posterity... and cause newspapers can teach you some things. Congress kicks off, what are the results? A bit more success with Chinese reading as I continue to review vocab Physio in aft so no double workout. DELTA progress And a little spacey track to start your week! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Enjoy! --- Send i...

Modified Murph cause I didn't want to do pull ups on the tree outside, I think that has been contributing to my back pain. Bought some newspapers to mark the occasion: Oct 16th kicks off the 20th CPC Congress. A lot of stocks were up today! Lockdowns affecting many... outside of Beijing. The more I read for the DELTA, the more I see my own failures in studying Mandarin Chinese. Show notes tracks n...

Flying cars from China to the UAE The banner of the people... figures it would happen now. Angela Lansbury passed away Michael Erard's (2012) review of the cases of some of history's most successful learners of multiple languages shows that their unusual talent was also associated with a willingness to work hard at tasks that many would consider too boring or difficult, such as using word cards to...

Russian invasion meant to deplete US and NATO arsenal? If Russia can prolong and Ukraine continues to rely on Western weapons without making its own, then there can be a slow bleed of Western munitions supply. Imagine who Russia could be working with on this one. Don't need writers, need eyes and ad revenue. How to generate? Hit the posts with he words you want to trens with a bunch of bots? Net z...

Some new shows to watch: new season of Family Guy and... a black guy as Louis the vampire? Hellraiser reboot with a woman? Still haven't seen the original. Worth it? Never really liked horror movies in general. McDonalds, fast food and supply chains, you feeling the pinch? Every time I think of getting it I either go for Chinese fast food or just make it myself. Working on a few writings. Sometime...

Back to work already... well, some started on Saturday! Kyiv being bombed in reaction to the Kerch Strait Bridge being bombed. Elon Musk trying to get into the Ukrainian War conversation after releasing Optimus. Company's stock is down quite a bit. Paypal, his former company, has also been getting hit. How real is the threat of nuclear war? What would we do? When will 'all of this' end? What would...