{"id":175427,"date":"2022-08-14T20:20:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T19:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175427"},"modified":"2022-08-14T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T19:20:05","slug":"so-hot-my-brain-is-fried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/08\/14\/so-hot-my-brain-is-fried\/","title":{"rendered":"So Hot My Brain is Fried"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Too hot to do anything and to hot to think as well. Hopefully the weather is supposed to break on Monday, but its really hard going as there is no way to keep the flats internal temp below 30C. We just can&#8217;t lower it whatever we do.&nbsp; &nbsp; We have tried every trick in the book pretty much. Hi ho alas and also lack a day.&nbsp;<br \/>\nJust stringing a few words together seems a herculean effort at present. I have resorted to keeping a small spray bottle in the fridge and misting myself with it to keep cool. It is actually remarkably effective in the short term. I did look into various cooling devices but they are not that practical due to the design of the apartment.<br \/>\nSo the day to day is difficult right now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here is a new song. It&#8217;s just Piano and Vocal on this one for a change, keeping it simple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1323591709&amp;color=%23d0346c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Happy Endings\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/happy-endings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Endings<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Let&#8217;s get back to proper English summers where you went on holiday in a caravan in Bognor Regis and the rain p***** down all night and it was so loud you couldn&#8217;t sleep. Or I could just move to Wales I suppose. In winter when it snowed just after we moved here in 2018&nbsp; we had to have the heating off as there was a leak, it was 19C. Each year in winter we seem to need much less heating. But how the hell you cool it I don&#8217;t know. Not that I am obsessed you know, but please make it stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The war in Ukraine is rumbling on and it&#8217;s scary.&nbsp; Really scary. I do wonder if I might not live to to draw my pension next year. Are we that close to a 3rd world war?<br \/>\nIt feels like we might be. All of the certainties we had seem to be blowing away in the wind. So we wait and we worry.&nbsp; Does Putin want to fulfil the words of the book?<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"\">&#8220;When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, &#8220;Come.&#8221; I looked, and behold, a pale horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p class=\"\">Makes you wonder what a person of&nbsp; faith feels at a time like this?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think I need a drink, laters people and try and do no harm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too hot to do anything and to hot to think as well. Hopefully the weather is supposed to break on Monday, but its really hard going as there is no way to keep the flats internal temp below 30C. We just can&#8217;t lower it whatever we do.&nbsp; &nbsp; We have tried every trick in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/08\/14\/so-hot-my-brain-is-fried\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So Hot My Brain is Fried<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,10,9,60,7,4,3,17,35,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-elephant-shelf","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-piano","category-pictures","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JDt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179061,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/22\/still-too-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":175427,"position":0},"title":"Still too hot.","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's still to hot for me. Here's a short Piano mood piece. Just a modal minor tune.It might grow into something else as well though. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Afterthought For Piano I feel very worn again. I did a gig at a village fate at Knebworth which was rather\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-20-142922.png?fit=1200%2C835&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175604,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/12\/07\/keep-on-trying-till-you-get-right-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":175427,"position":1},"title":"Keep On Trying Till You Get It Right, Right?","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"If only everything in life was that easy? But its not. A philosophical reflection on music from my perspective. I love it and people perceive what I do as being of some worth. But I will never really feel as though I really have it enough serious effort. 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Many people seem to misidentify me as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_123449-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_123449-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_123449-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_123449-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_123449-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240728_123449-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175586,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/11\/25\/someday-maybe\/","url_meta":{"origin":175427,"position":3},"title":"Someday Maybe","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 25, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The sun is out. I hope wherever you are you are having a good day. I read a couple things in the news today that made me feel very sad. I will not bother to quote them here as tomorrow no doubt they will replaced with other similar stuff that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":174906,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/04\/15\/keep-calm-and-carry-on-perhaps\/","url_meta":{"origin":175427,"position":4},"title":"Keep calm and carry on perhaps?","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I seem to have ground to a halt.\u00a0 OK I have been practicing and preparing things so I haven't really stopped completely, but it feels like that...\u00a0 The creative energy well has run a little dry. 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