{"id":177971,"date":"2024-09-27T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=177971"},"modified":"2024-09-27T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:31:07","slug":"a-passing-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/27\/a-passing-low\/","title":{"rendered":"A passing low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the doldrums&#8217; again. Floating towards the sargasso weed slowly getting stuck.<br>My moods unaccountably low this week, tired and irritable. Somewhat depressed, and it&#8217;s a struggle to get out of bed. I am using all the normal tricks of the trade, but mentally is been a hard week. Or is it just ennui? Talking of which here is a track called &#8220;Ennui 11&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<br>Which implies the existence of ennui 1 to 10.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><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\/1923939503&#038;color=%238c8cc8&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/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 href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/ennui-11\" title=\"Ennui 11\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Ennui 11<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-red-color has-off-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1dd12a98ba99dd88177ca72928cd626e\"><strong>And it is still raining here. <\/strong><br><br><strong>Welcome to:<\/strong><br><br><strong><em>Ferenginar the capital planet of the Ferengi Alliance, best known for having\u00a0nearly constant, planet-wide torrential rains, rotting vegetation, and rivers of muck. Due to the near-constant levels of torrential rain, the buildings are kept under domes, which help keep the resident Ferengi dry. <\/em><\/strong><br><br>OK it&#8217;s not that bad here yet to be fair.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel like I have achieved very little this week over all.  I have felt tired and slightly unwell for most of it though.  Maybe tomorrow and all that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"752\" data-attachment-id=\"177989\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/27\/a-passing-low\/samsung-digital-camera\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?fit=1532%2C1907&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1532,1907\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;VLUU NV10, NV10&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1201648392&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?fit=604%2C752&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some-823x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C752&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?resize=823%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 823w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?resize=768%2C956&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?resize=1234%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Giving-it-some.jpg?w=1532&amp;ssl=1 1532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the doldrums&#8217; again. Floating towards the sargasso weed slowly getting stuck.My moods unaccountably low this week, tired and irritable. Somewhat depressed, and it&#8217;s a struggle to get out of bed. I am using all the normal tricks of the trade, but mentally is been a hard week. Or is it just ennui? Talking of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/09\/27\/a-passing-low\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A passing low<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177982,"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":[10,60,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20160613_170141.jpg?fit=2560%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Kiv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179061,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/22\/still-too-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":177971,"position":0},"title":"Still too hot.","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's still to hot for me. 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