{"id":178191,"date":"2024-11-04T10:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=178191"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T10:53:04","slug":"frustrations-and-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/04\/frustrations-and-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrations And Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few minor hiccups at present. My car is still not well and I am trying some bodging and amateur fettling to try and fix it. Success is not by any means guaranteed though. But one feels one should at least try or one would be letting the side down. It is the English way to carry on keep calm and struggle in an abjectly futile manner though of course. So another test run. All well until a minute or so  from home and it cut out. Turned off waiting 30 secs ,instant restart and OK again. WTF? Is it haunted. Argh!!! First world problems I guess. So I have ordered a code reader which should tell me what&#8217;s up.  Only \u00a321 and it should give a  reasonable clue as to if I should mend or scrap it.   <br><br>I just looked at the computer and it logged itself in. I suspect it&#8217;s not psychokinesis just a vibration jogging the mouse but for a moment there I was wondering. Today I have been working on some music but the timing is a bit wayward in parts. I discovered I had put in an extra 4 bars of part of the sequence in the middle but I kept it . Maybe might work.  Plus I have got a bit anxious. So it&#8217;s an all stop till the morrow I think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow has come and I ache like the blaises. Why? Well I sat on the sofa last night and normally I don&#8217;t. Could just be that. Arthritis  works in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minor hiccups at present. My car is still not well and I am trying some bodging and amateur fettling to try and fix it. Success is not by any means guaranteed though. But one feels one should at least try or one would be letting the side down. It is the English way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/04\/frustrations-and-questions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frustrations And Questions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178212,"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-178191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20180908_210136-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Km3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":177775,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/08\/11\/the-thin-veneer-is-starting-to-crack\/","url_meta":{"origin":178191,"position":0},"title":"The Thin Veneer Is Starting To Crack","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"My mental health is playing up and pushing me off balance slightly again. 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