The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Ouch, GOLD! SILVER! What happened to Chinese stonks?! https://zealllc.com/2024/gdsksr24.htm New videos up on MYMYM, making this a daily thing now instead of just a couple months a year. Will see how long I can go! Aiming UGC-style content creation production workflow! Russian class done! Barely a lunch time workout! Looking into studying some different Chinese dialects, Taiwanese anyone? Need to c...

Is that a sandstorm or just another layer of smog? Weekend workouts and a run at lunch! Today 7km in about 42min, forgot to start the watch. Did NOT lift heavy, shoulder is still bothering me. Upgraded Zapier account for more flexibility, also got a month of Descript transcription software. Looking to build out! New videos posted on the language vlog, will need to do another longer form vid. Worki...

What was that double top you mentioned yesterday? -RSI -Price action: did the S&P500 just top out? Body fat and “normal body type”, Jeff Nippard on Youtube. The reality of getting a six pack. Reversion to the mean, some bodies just won’t be happy at some weights. Steroid usage: https://youtu.be/VD9p9tEP9RE?si=MGAPdmNB_stxGOtW Getting shredded: https://youtu.be/larBqTjA7-g?si=BpgdwGfw_HfGdzm0 L...

Qingming day off, did NOT get as much done as I wanted to but still got quite a bit done. Mostly moving files around from one hard drive to another. Making videos every day, posting to MYMYM on YouTube. Starbucks done with the olive oil! Made another video trying to capture the parallax effect. GOLD and SILVER still going, Canadian energy in a tear. Chinese stonks look to have turned around in Jan...

Qingming dao le! Day off tomorrow as the nation remembers those who’ve gone before us, complete with tomb sweeping and street corner offerings. Last Russian class done with one teacher, will change it up for the next little bit. BIG learn today: AnkiWeb! Found out you can import CSV files AND add some code that will use TTS (text-to-speech) from your computer to SPEAK the word. ANY LANGUAGE! Check...

Dishes washed, time to record! Korean for dinner, but talking about roast duck on the vlog! Russian class done and lining up classes for the rest of the month. Plans? Looking to get into Chinese calligraphy to learn traditional characters.  Learning Chinese through Taobao? Models and infomercials galore! Newsletter a writing: how could this change?? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have...

New month, new week, new what? GOLD with the BOOM! Still missing out on this rally. FML Careful chasing this. Workout in at lunch, 6.48km in 40.02, about a 6 minute per km pace. Rope work, push ups, jumps, pistols after. How are those pull ups? Only got 30-35 done today. Back feels fine, but just want to make sure. Still, doing more than I used to. Working on automation and application selection:...

Good Friday! And it’s the weekend! Have you confessed your sins yet? Spent the day on a video for the language vlog, should be up this weekend. Is this what it would be like to be a content creator? Amazing how technology has changed. Doing some numbers: -$600 to make five videos, 15 seconds long -initial consult -research  -scripting -editing Workout in! Lunch time run 6.48km in 1 hour 1 min 16 s...

Holy Thursday, this is the last day for Stations of the Cross. I’ve always liked the Church music from Easter. What happened to Chinese stonks? Falling again? Gold with the surprise move (is it USD-related?). Canadian oil still chugging along. Did not know Canva could actually publish websites. Just as I’ve been looking to switch my hosting provider, might be time to scale down and make the move....

How was Hardwell? What’s that smoke smell? What are they doing in that apartment over there?! Midweek means it’s a workout day! But had to pull up cause something got strained so now I hurt even more! Could you own a business? Could you take over a business? The Knowledge is Power Podcast on YouTube had on a few guests that were by no means household names but still had a lot to share. Brad Jacobs...

Out for a bike ride, is that smog in the air?! Or just a change in the air pressure? Got a little Xiaomi photo printer, the idea is to keep track of some of my photos a little more. I question how long the photos will last.  Setting up another pcast episode, looks like April will be busy. How are those pull ups doing? 10 done today. Push ups? None. It’s okay, this doesn’t have to be done right awa...

New week! Easter week! What do you do? Visit to the Beijing Capital Museum… the city has been around a loong time, much longer than the 5,000 years most people talk about. Working on automation, Make.com vs Zapier.com, which seems to be the best fit? Haven’t heard anything form Riverside.fm regarding the pcast so I’m going to assume that if it hasn’t been altogether lost, then there’s some problem...

Friday night at the river! 同事们！Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk?? Lunch time run, 6.49 km in 49.18, brought out the 5kg steel clubs and weight vest cause I can’t do pull ups at the moment! Got like 10 done! Russian class done, has homework changed? Using ChatGPT… Chinese class done… on the way home! Should’ve been a writing class but no assignment before class. No alcohol for a month! First time s...

Is it the Spring solstice? Spent the evening trying to automate! Again! Steve when will you give up?!?! Got some things done and couldn’t do other things. Tried out Zapier and connected a bunch of APPs to it, Google Sheets, Descript, YouTube, etc. Managed to get YouTube titles etc pulled into a spreadsheet that updates automatically so now I have a record of all of the videos I uploaded to my lang...

Russian class done! Talking about doing pull ups, work outs and… push ups to a song?  Which song? Bring Sally Up which is based on Moby’s 1996 song “Flower”. Why am I only hearing about this now? Cause I found a David Goggins clips of him doing the challenge… and struggling. Apparently the song has roots in a song sung by slaves: Green Sally up, Green Sally down, last one squat gotta tear the grou...

100 pull ups done! Lunch time workout done! Episode 44… some disappointing news… it won’t happen. Riverside.fm didn’t record the whole thing so, out of the three-hour conversation, I only have 35 minutes! Very disappointing! Lined up a bunch of Apple Motion tutorials and ideas and I’m thinking I might just sit down and bang through these all at once. That way I can check off doing the project, lea...

Beginning of the week! Does it ever end?! Where will you be in another year?? How are those pull ups doing? 101 on Saturday, 55 or so on Sunday, at 75 right now I think. Lunchtime run: 6.47km in 35.18. Tubestation pizza tastes like what I remember Domino’s to be like. Looking for other Chinese teachers, more speaking and writing practice! Will let you know how it goes! Went to the National Art Gal...

Beware the Ides of March! Newsletter prepped for the weekend, text only, will send these out when they’re ready. Working on a music track for SLV Is YouTube the new TV publication schedule? Russian class done - working on ovat' verbs = usually borrowed words from another language. No workout after work but did do a 4.97 km ruck type slow run indoors in 47.17 min. A bit smoggy so didn’t want to...

Podcasting tip: brush your teeth beforehand, and use mouth wash before an interview. You’ll feel better. Smog in, spring warmth in! Winter jackets out! Another Russian class done! Sounding better, but still rough on the declensions. Spent some time making memes for TikTok, do you have to be on every platform? I wanted to learn how to do these things, to see if they’d even be fun to do. Some are, b...

Her did I tell you about the apartment debacle?! Shut down, scolded, removed and then refurbished! Spring is here with grass and all! Newsletter in the works! Thinking… no pictures in the email, will post those onto the website. Another Russian class done! All the fun talking about life in China. Learning more conjugations and parts of speech, so doing better. Could you live without parts of the i...

Lunch time workout done! Full on like they used to be! Wondering, what if I DID add a morning jog to the mix? Could I ALSO study Chinese at the same time? How is Chinese going? No classes scheduled, but I am using Du Chinese for reading every morning, so far so good. How is Russian going? Another class today. This is an easier language to pick up given its proximity to other European languages. Fu...

Finally! Time stamps done and done for the podcast! Only took three years! Head on over to Youtube and you can see the chapter breaks. Next, I’ll get them done on Spotify. Episode 44… where are you?!?!?! In the works! Successfully did NOT workout after work today, why? We’ll see if this new schedule works: -MWF: lunchtime run + short intense workout -TTh: lunchtime weights -F: heavy workout to end...

Friday end of week! Still work tomorrow!  Happy International Women’s Day!  How did Goggins do it: record audiobooks, author books, work out, ultras, etc.? And when does he do laundry? AI tech a go go: Canva, DALL-E, and others all jumping in and I’d say it is getting a little bit better. Again, this isn’t ground-breaking art here, but neither were meme-quotes, gifs, or even posters, yet they all...

Internet issues… it’s times like these… we have to remind ourselves that this can happen anywhere. Posting to the Language Vlog… working on another vid for that channel. STVSKRSKI, March Motion and looking ahead to… trying After Effects again? What about DaVinci Resolve?  Gold a moving, how are them stonks? Warmer temperatures on the horizon! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good...

Workouts in! How’s the hip? 6.46km in 51.08, a 7.45 avg pace. Slam ball work done too. Newsletter out! Ditan Park temple fair, and will make this into a video. Work a slowing, time to get some other things done. This time … 1, 3, 25 years ago today! Bilboard Top 40 Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!☝️