SSAB – May 1, 2023
Labour Day is no day off! Newsletter out! Chinese taxes done! Twitter subscriptions? What would you pay for? May You Make Your Movie kicks off! New vids (complete with a behind the scenes look) are up on YouTube. Merch and such, worth it? Why would you buy? Unless it’s tour concert shirts How was Ukrainian lesson? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good start of week!
SSAB – May 2, 2023
Eight hours for yourself, or eight hours for someone else? Labour Day… but people are back to work? Markets open Thursday Sun Tzu class Ukrainian class… no go iTalki offers language proficiency tests? Uses Emmersion, a company that specializes in AI-language testing. Thinking of applying for a quote. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!
SSAB – May 3, 2023
Dead bodies under the bed Travel restrictions (all a part of the gamble of leaving the country!) MYMYM2023 – Instagram n YouTube updated. USD/GOLD inversion… just seems obvious, which means watch this trade unfold over the next six months. If gold breaks through to the upside, it will no doubt be met with a sharp reversal. The USD is just too oversold. All that being said, there are a lot of factors lining up that would make gold higher, which also tells me that’s it’s just to obvious to happen. Six common birds: -Eurasian Tree Sparrow -Crows -Oriental Magpie -Azure-winged Magpie -Light-vented Bulbul -Hoopoe (the really neat looking one) Show notes n tracks n vids up stevensirski.com Happy Humping Day!
SSAB – May 4, 2023
May the Fourth be with you! Great marketing Start of the work week? We got rain! Chinese class… how are your teeth? Ukrainian class… lots of language spoken! Taras Shevchenko reading MYMYM2023 trying some things out. Show notes tracks n vids all up on stevensirski.com Have a good one.
SSAB – May 5, 2023
No strike here! Content still going! Writer strike in Hollywood! New blog or newsletter? Chinese changes 2023. Guess I should publish 2022 edition. MYMYM2023 continues on Instagram and YouTube No Agenda Show: Ukraine war going to be over soon? DMZ in Donbas area? Biden out? Harris and Obama 2024? Would Trump have a chance? All this just intrigues me more to go. Workout done… 4 miles, 300 double unders, then 100 pull ups, 200 push ups and 300 squats followed by a slow weight work out after work. Haruki Murakami, working out, sitting down, and the writer’s life. Blue Frog… yup, still eating it. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!
SSAB – May 8, 2023
New King! Did you watch? Beautiful day to go sit in a couple banks, watch people stamp papers, learn some characters, and hear some other bank client scream at the top of her lungs that it’s taking too long. Yup, welcome to the club. Club hurry up n wait. New characters! 共富 common wealth，消火栓 fire hydrant，暂 temporary. Workouts in! Felt dogged today. Getting hotter at lunch, sustainable time to run? Newsletter out, lots about May You May Your Movie. Ukrainian class… more Taras Shevchenko and old Ukrainian words. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 9, 2023
Ukrainian class Tuesday work Stop Motion work Show notes on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 10, 2023
Nintendo Power… remember those zines? Now a podcast. -The value of collecting / keeping stuff Ric Flair on Joe Rogan, another blast from the past Language vlog class notes: another way to remember. Ukrainian class – This teacher is a good conversationalist and uses terms I understand May you make your movie continues Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!
SSAB – May 11, 2023
Shorts weather! Humidity up! Final Cut Pro n Logic for iPad… but need the latest. New vids up! Bank transfers… it’s a war of attrition New pcast episodes in the works! Ukrainian class, how was it? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com Have a good one!
SSAB – May 12, 2023
How did yesterday’s audio sound? Used Dolby App to refine the audio a little, hope it sounds better. Workouts in! Is this sustainable?! 4 miles – 39m 18s 200 or 300 double unders 40 bench jumps 100 pull ups 200 push ups 300 squats Followed by a slow weight workout after work! Working on Episode 39, will be a matter of timing. Thinking… intensive Chinese class later this summer? Money transfer worked! May You Make Your Movie… lots of animation this year. Thinking I might make this a regular contribution idea. Have a great weekend. Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 15, 2023
Workouts in! 4 miles, 300 double unders, 70 bench jumps, then after work club and mace workout. Smoggy and chest hurt after… looking into getting a respirator for these days. Monday up! Did you call your Mother? Coal starting to move. Gold dropped as USD jumped last week. Humid but not hot just yet. Ukrainian class, how was it? Ukrainian tv shows for kids, still too tough! Got a Saturday afternoon jam for you. Newsletter out! Have a good one! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 16, 2023
Is that the air or pollution? Humid! It was supposed to rain! And then didn’t. Ukrainian readings. AI replacing jobs, are knowledge workers done? Good! No more crappy ebooks! May You Make Your Movie and day off tomorrow! Have a good one! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 17, 2023
Feeling young? You’re old at 42. Any sense of loss? Do you miss the things you used to do? Listening to Peter Attila’s Outlived This is actually part of my hesitation to go back to Canada. WSJ to stop using Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss. Mx. etc. Ukrainian class, how was it? Vocab list up on substack. May You Make Your Movie continues. Learning to integrate a bunch of different apps. Have a good one! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 18, 2023
Watching gamers. 42 and feeling not so old, so? What gives? Houses vs stocks Bonds? Where do you deploy your capital And what do you want to do? As expats, many moved for better opportunities, and then what? If you had that monthly retirement income, what would you be doing with your time? Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 19, 2023
Not the most inspiring day Off to a wedding over the weekend Argentina vs Australia soccer/football! QL and your abductors: the Tredelenburg Gait and how to fix it. 520 五二零 我爱你 – buying flowers? Have a good weekend! Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 22, 2023
The system has been destroyed! Not a warning you want to see and the realization of what’s really important… on your cell phone.
How was the wedding?
Work outs in, running slower but there could be a combination of factors: heat, weekend, dehydration, laziness.
Have a good start of week!
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 23, 2023
Final Cut Pro n Logic for the iPad to be released today, has Apple embraced the subscription model?
Are Xiaomi phones worth it? Or get an iPhone? No progress on my phone.
MYMYM2023 vids upped
Newsletter out
Different approach to working out? Every day or just some days?
Have a good one!
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 24, 2023
Purchased Final Cut and Logic. How are they?
What are some programs that I use to create my stuff?
Video:
Capcut on iPad
JianYing on cell phone
Final Cut Pro
Motion
QuickTime (screen recording)
Screen recording (especially for Notes or Freeform APP)
Usually shoot 4K, but iPad only does 1080p front camera. You don’t need 4K, but I like to have it for posterity.
Audio:
Logic Pro
Garageband
Audacity
iZotope
kid3 for metatags
Audiolab for cell phone compression and stickering the mp3 tracks
Dolby On
Important: Gain, Expander, Compression (Vocal Opto 1), Limiter, Levels
Photo:
PixelMator Pro
Canva
Cell phone default photo editor
Hope that helps!
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 25, 2023
Death all around! Severed hand! Baijiu poisoning! Aaaannnddd COVID’s back, alright?!
How was Ukrainian class? How much do you tell your teacher about what you do? Today I talked about my creative projects and I’m not sure which is worse: a teacher saying ‘That’s very nice’ or a sibling or Mother!
Spices… did you know ‘all spice’ is actually a plant?! Yea, not a combination of spices! The plant is called Pimenta dioica and is found in Mexico and Central America.
Why do I know this? Reading up on spice usage. Basically… spices are good for your health in ways that add to the benefits of whole foods.
Listen to latest TDI podcast, about AI and how this ChatGPT may just be the peak internet tech experience. Newspapers here we come! Gatekeepers of AI?
Have a good one!
Show notes up on stevensirski.com!
Reading Storm Before the Calm, US American settlers, imagine doing that independence shtick on another planet!
Caesar, war and armies and power… is being a commander still the most glorified position?
SSAB – May 26, 2023
Starting HSK 6 vocab! Annunciation and the art of sounding ‘native’
Workouts in!
Podcast recording this weekend?
Which mic today?
Track tryout using Logic after this episode!
Reading Storm Before the Calm, US American settlers, imagine doing that independence shtick on another planet!
Caesar, war and armies and power… is being a commander still the most glorified position?
Have a good weekend!
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
SSAB – May 29, 2023
Episode 39 izzzz…. done?
MYMYM2023 ending this week!
Trying out AI video editing, may be good for people who don’t want to learn how to edit but wow these things are brutal. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
Moderna now in China? Is that why we’re still hearing about COVID in the country?
Newsletter out!
618 sales starting! Spend spend spend!
How are those travel plans?
Skins compression wear, worth it?
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com.
Have a good start of week!
SSAB – May 30, 2023
End of the month!
Rent paid!
Goodbye parties a comin’
Rick Rubin The Creative Act – Why make anything? Giving up and retiring! Wait, how do you retire?!
Storm Before the Calm – Caesar, war and armies and power… is being a commander still the most glorified position? Or is it being a corporate CEO?
Products are meant to be sold!
Show notes up on stevensirski.com.
Have a good one!
SSAB – May 31, 2023
May done! June incoming! Plans?
When do you wash your dishes? New therapeutic evening routine?
Workouts in! Definitely running slower but still getting out there.
How was Ukrainian class?
MYMYM2023 basically over, now to finish up and take some time off.
Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com
Have a good one!