{"id":179549,"date":"2025-12-06T21:51:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179549"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:51:56","slug":"december-begins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/12\/06\/december-begins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"December begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A wobbly start to the month. The overwhelming urge to hibernate is getting really strong at present. A few minor tech problems hit my music making, but I think I have got it licked now. Well almost so we will see. Cubase has decided to crash randomly and I think it is a driver error but who knows. That is why I tend to stick with hardware based recording systems most of the time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"578\" data-attachment-id=\"179554\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/12\/06\/december-begins-2\/me-again\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?fit=1483%2C1420&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1483,1420\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy A15 5G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1764778656&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=\"Me again\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?fit=604%2C578&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again-1024x980.jpg?resize=604%2C578&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?resize=1024%2C980&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?resize=300%2C287&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?resize=768%2C735&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?w=1483&amp;ssl=1 1483w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Me-again.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<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\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2223979295&#038;color=%23400e0e&#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><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;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/slow-sunday-winter\" title=\"Slow Sunday Winter\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Slow Sunday Winter<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, was trying to gird up my folky loins for this evening with the Invisible-folk-club-band. Sadly the weather beat me into submission, due to storms and flash flooding everywhere so I decided to not be be stupid and turn back. Can&#8217;t win em all but it&#8217;s going to be raining on and off all night and I really don&#8217;t want to get stuck out anywhere in the middle of nowhere on my own. Hopefully the Christmas tree fest in Olney tomorrow will go a little better (it did though even that was problematical). I hate to miss a gig but that&#8217;s life I guess. I have only missed about 5 over 20 years plus or so I guess its Ok. &#8220;You got to know when to hold &#8217;em, know when to fold &#8217;em Know when to walk away and know when to run&#8221;&#8230;I do feel a bit less invulnerable recently, its age I guess.<br><br> I have been thinking I must transcribe a few of my less obscure songs and do few at the odd open mike next year maybe? I have a lot of stuff which I work on and record and then promptly forget. So thats my next trick I guess. Something to work on during Gloommass and the new year. Interesting that in rehearsals I was making the odd daft joke and I thought to myself if I get some material together maybe the occasional solo gig might be possible. I have done them before and they were far better received than they should have been frankly. That would be a tangible thing to aim for I think that might fill in the gaps. I can find my most played songs on the streaming services and transcribe those and that should give me a reasonable set list perhaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is still a lot of bad news out there and right now I can&#8217;t deal with it.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wobbly start to the month. The overwhelming urge to hibernate is getting really strong at present. A few minor tech problems hit my music making, but I think I have got it licked now. Well almost so we will see. Cubase has decided to crash randomly and I think it is a driver error &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/12\/06\/december-begins-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December begins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179564,"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-179549","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\/2025\/12\/1f34d4620eb9d61722a82c482e24c752_6.jpeg?fit=1440%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KHX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179549"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179566,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179549\/revisions\/179566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}