{"id":176515,"date":"2024-01-27T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176515"},"modified":"2024-01-27T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T22:28:11","slug":"ultimately-the-best-result-you-can-ever-get-is-a-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/27\/ultimately-the-best-result-you-can-ever-get-is-a-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimately The Best Result You Can Ever Get Is A Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no winning ultimately.  I have just taken a break  from working on a new track.  It&#8217;s going well but I don&#8217;t want to mess it up and a few things I tried are not turning out as I had hoped. So it is time for a tea break.  Post tea break I have adopted a different strategy which seems to have worked better \ud83d\ude42  So I am mixing at present. In fact I have mixed it and verily here is the song.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1727586255&amp;color=%23e49864&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;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Lets Plan A Great Escape\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/lets-plan-a-great-escape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lets Plan A Great Escape<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p> It was sunny again as I drove to my rehearsals in Stevenage in the afternoon. the trees are already showing signs of buds which seems very early to me, though I don&#8217;t have much knowledge of such matters.    have been quite creative in musical terms this month , lots of recording and writing plus rehearsals and learning band stuff. My brain feels a bit fried though at present. I have deliberately made the effort to keep a bit busier at home to avoid too much of the usual mood crash that I always get this time of year. It&#8217;s hard to do on the days that your on your own though. <br><br>The new exercise bike is in regular use, fingers crossed it will have some health benefits in the longer term. It should increase stamina but I am not sure if it will reduce the aches and pains much though  it may help with my mental health a little bit too. I have had it just a little over a week now so it&#8217;s very early days of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have submitted my next Album release &#8221; Tinfoil hat 1234&#8243; which will go on distribution in mid February on Amazon spotty and so forth . Ok its an indulgence but it keeps me amused as I creep towards the  onset of my dotage.  Doing cover art is a problem so I just find a picture of me and use that now or occasionally a watercolour or pastel picture. I haven&#8217;t painted or drawn much recently though.  An odd thing that occurred during the covid lockdowns was that essential I got used to being an indoor cat. Now the door is open but I am loath to walk out through it. After a while the sense of feeling trapped disappeared. I did  a lot of useful and creative stuff during that time, interspersed with a few solo walks around my local area. Contrast that with now and  I find it very difficult to keep focussed on anything on an  at home day, when i might have a fair number of things to do.  And also I try to avoid thinking too much. Its hard though. That&#8217;s often when the anxiety strikes. I am feeling a little like that tonight.  A Saturday night In. Argh&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no winning ultimately. I have just taken a break from working on a new track. It&#8217;s going well but I don&#8217;t want to mess it up and a few things I tried are not turning out as I had hoped. So it is time for a tea break. Post tea break I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/27\/ultimately-the-best-result-you-can-ever-get-is-a-draw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ultimately The Best Result You Can Ever Get Is A Draw<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176534,"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":[10,60,4,3,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/home1-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1244&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JV1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179824,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/15\/the-sun-shone-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":176515,"position":0},"title":"The Sun Shone Today","author":"diana Stone","date":"February 15, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Wasted Life Yes it really did. 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