{"id":175747,"date":"2023-04-11T18:34:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175747"},"modified":"2023-04-11T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:34:56","slug":"whats-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/04\/11\/whats-to-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s to be Done?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We can&#8217;t slow down time but some people seem to just give up at a certain point in life. Perhaps they are perfectly content in some bovine manner to chew cud and wait for the slaughter house?  Makes you wonder at times.  I would rather be doing until I am done so to speak.  But sometimes it&#8217;s difficult. Yesterday my back kicked off after  I unwisely  spent a couple of hours watching TV seated on the sofa and could hardly stand up. That was a shock to system dear reader without doubt. A bit of  a worry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And guess what another tune. Not quite sure what this is exactly, a sort of semi modal, jazzy thing. So here it is then, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust The Spring Dance&#8221; <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1488728416&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\"><\/iframe><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>My various band projects are steadily making progress  at the moment which is very pleasing too. Beyond that is just keeping on keeping on. At the time of writing this it&#8217;s now 4 years to the day since Vicky Martin died after a gig at the Slaughtered Lamb and the whole routine of regular gigs seems a world away from what I do now. &#8220;Things ain&#8217;t what they used to be&#8221; by any means now. I have made new friends among my musical co-conspirators which is pleasing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Spring is trying get going just about now which makes things look a little more cheery too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcus Aurelius<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roman Emperor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> <br> <br>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t slow down time but some people seem to just give up at a certain point in life. Perhaps they are perfectly content in some bovine manner to chew cud and wait for the slaughter house? Makes you wonder at times. I would rather be doing until I am done so to speak. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/04\/11\/whats-to-be-done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s to be Done?<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JID","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154003,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/12\/25\/get-philosophy-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":175747,"position":0},"title":"Get philosophy done","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Wittgenstein Solves Philosophy","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137460,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2019\/02\/28\/more-on-the-theme-of-what-have-the-eu-done-for-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":175747,"position":1},"title":"More on the theme of &#8220;what have the EU done for us&#8221;","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This is really funny when you start reading the comments.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":118038,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/05\/23\/win-10-what-have-you-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":175747,"position":2},"title":"Win 10 what have you done?","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a win 10 laptop which is part of my recording setup. 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