SSAB – September 1, 2023
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 taking classes. But got them in.
Last Chinese translation class… what did I learn?
The mp3 automation works! Now to figure out how to prompt for a pic and mux the necessary html
GOLD turning down, but is this temporary?
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Weekend is up, have a good one!
SSAB – September 4, 2023
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.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 5, 2023
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?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 6, 2023
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 all this smog and humidity to the North… or so it seems.
Workouts in!
Indoor running at lunchtime
-4 km
Then x4
-10 Devil’s press
-12 One arm kbell swings
-8 ground-level one arm push up declines
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 7, 2023
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?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 8, 2023
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 website mischief. Maybe time to upgrade the site. Grr.
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SSAB – September 11, 2023
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 lest we forget 9/11 so many years ago.
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Have a good start of week!
SSAB – September 12, 2023
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?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 13, 2023
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 > Logic? > Capcut?
Sleep is important! So when do you sleep, Steve?
Much cooler in the Beijing these days, making it nice.
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 14, 2023
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!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 15, 2023
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??
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Have a good weekend!
SSAB – September 18, 2023
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 Cheerios!
Aliens in Mexico!
Unity goes paid, how will this affect my game dev plans? It won’t! Cause I’ve barely started!
Workouts in!
Lunchtime run 5.5km = 36.16
Kbell n runs
After work: maces and clubs
Episode 40 coming along!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 19, 2023
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!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 20, 2023
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??
Hurt pinky, why? Oh, that’s why…
Looking forward to the National Day break as I might actually have some time to catch up on things! Famous words of the newly distracted!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 21, 2023
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?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 22, 2023
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 today’s show!
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Have a good weekend!
SSAB – September 25, 2023
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!!
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Have a good start of week!
SSAB – September 26, 2023
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 the smog?
Steve, why don’t you have a TV show or vlog channel that’s edited without all of your breaths?
-Cause in five years you’ll wonder why people didn’t breathe in the 2020s
Do you watch your videos on 1.75x?
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 27, 2023
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
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 28, 2023
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 something I’ll be working with over the next little while to see if I can fix up that nasal-ness. Tweaked the 1260Hz and 11100Hz ranges, we’ll see how that sounds.
Dinner: chicken, broccoli, carrots, garlic in butter = fantastic!
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Have a good one!
SSAB – September 29, 2023
Late but done!
Out with the boys, some returnees from abroad!
WTF recruiters around LiangMa?
Another video hits it off: BC AD BCE CE, almost 2000 views
Quiet! Very nice.
Plans?
Workout slowed down, only did a slow paced run.
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival and have a great weekend!