SSAB - January 27, 2025

Beijing is sure quiet these days, hard to believe that it’s ever much more noisy. Looking at automations using Apple Shortcuts and Text Replacements. Text Replacement: System Settings > Keyboard > Text Replacements Had an idea: year in the life of an English teacher - on XiaoHongShu. Figuring I could then turn than into a book after while documenting my teaching journey once again. Workout in! Morning and evening! Morning: bike, and then rounds of battle ropes, dips, pull ups, kettle bell carries, skips, and tactical get ups, etc. Evening: 7.03 km run in 54.03, a bit slow; then some rope work, push ups, lunges and assisted pistol squats. Into Spring Festival time we go, Temple Fairs will probably go ahead this year, where should I go? SLV podcast Episode 25 out, and shot Episode 26 today! Spent the day also editing “Flights to China”, all about deciding which type of flight to take to get to China. Donate to the show! PayPal link below! https://www.paypal.me/stevensirski?locale.x=en_CA *** Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com And on Notion: https://stevensirski.notion.site/SSAB-The-Audio-Blog-of-Steven-Sirski-00acfe344e164bfab191d3cddf6952b2?pvs=4 December Drumming 2024 over here: https://skrskimuzik.bandcamp.com/album/december-drumming-2024 Newsletter over at stevensirski.substack.com (soon to be AI generated!) Language vlog on http://www.youtube.com/@stevenslanguagevlog Hope you have a great one!! 00:00 Introduction and Beijing's Quietness 00:45 Tech Troubles and New Computer Issues 01:52 Spring Festival Observations 08:05 Automation and Shortcuts 28:25 Workouts and Daily Routine 29:42 Video Editing and Podcasting 32:38 Conclusion and Final Thoughts