{"id":177351,"date":"2024-05-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177351"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T19:33:15","slug":"post-covid-first-gig-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/21\/post-covid-first-gig-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Covid First Gig And Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">I managed to get through the gig OK and it was fun. I am still a bit fatigued though. But hey I enjoyed it and that&#8217;s the point really. Also a friend who is quite reclusive came along and watched the first set which is nice. I didn&#8217;t know they were there though until the next day \ud83d\ude42 I did make a couple of mistakes, but I think that was due to not being 100% well. I hate it when that happens though. Today I am starting to tidy up my web server finally. A lot of stuff is totally redundant now. it&#8217;s going to be a long and boring job though and I should have done this about 10 years ago, so its more than a little overdue. I don&#8217;t really do web development now and many of my hand coding skills are simply not required except to fix stuff that is broken. <br><br>I found an old song that&#8217;s due for re-recording so I shall start working on it this week and see what I can make of it with a new approach as it was written about 20 years ago now. I am somewhat distracted today though but I may get started with that. It&#8217;s not so much brain fog as simply a case of inertia I think. <br><br>Meanwhile here is another song from last year that a few people liked just to keep you going. <br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1625281377&amp;color=%23bd6f3c&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=\"I Am On A Bad Road\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/i-am-on-a-bad-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Am On A Bad Road<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">I am still drifting a bit. I am managing to do stuff but I really just don&#8217;t seem to have any sort of drive left now. I am not so anxious but also can&#8217;t seem to summon that proper focused concentration so easily. I guess that&#8217;s aging to an extent. On TikTok someone described me as Marge Simpsons sister Selma Bouvier. Hell yes, I am going to own it   \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"412\" data-attachment-id=\"177382\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/21\/post-covid-first-gig-and-stuff\/selma_bouvier\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Selma_Bouvier.png?fit=241%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"241,412\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Selma_Bouvier\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Selma_Bouvier.png?fit=241%2C412&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Selma_Bouvier.png?resize=241%2C412&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177382\" style=\"width:288px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Selma_Bouvier.png?w=241&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Selma_Bouvier.png?resize=175%2C300&amp;ssl=1 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">Definitely a good look. America fascinates me but I have only been to NYC  a couple of times and doubt I will ever see more of the place apart from via YouTube and Streetview and of course the mythical USA via movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">I just managed to get a very dynamic vocal sound on a track. My voice is definitely changing a bit now.  Go me. Sort of.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized is-style-rounded wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" data-attachment-id=\"177388\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/21\/post-covid-first-gig-and-stuff\/sitdown-portrait-poster\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sitdown-portrait-Poster.jpg?fit=250%2C376&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"250,376\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sitdown-portrait-Poster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sitdown-portrait-Poster.jpg?fit=250%2C376&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sitdown-portrait-Poster.jpg?resize=250%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177388\" style=\"width:533px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sitdown-portrait-Poster.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Sitdown-portrait-Poster.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to get through the gig OK and it was fun. I am still a bit fatigued though. But hey I enjoyed it and that&#8217;s the point really. Also a friend who is quite reclusive came along and watched the first set which is nice. I didn&#8217;t know they were there though until the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/05\/21\/post-covid-first-gig-and-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post Covid First Gig And Stuff<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177370,"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":[10,60,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/in-da-club-1.jpg?fit=1198%2C684&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K8v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1099,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2011\/08\/14\/back-catalogue\/","url_meta":{"origin":177351,"position":0},"title":"Back catalogue","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have just started going through my back catalogue of songs and listening through the recordings from 1998 with a view to possibly putting the good stuff on the web(if there is any of course ). 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