{"id":179839,"date":"2026-02-17T17:09:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179839"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:09:50","slug":"mid-february-and-its-still-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/17\/mid-february-and-its-still-raining\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid February And Its Still Raining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have ground to a halt again again today. My mood is sort of neutral. I have been hit with an attack of the beige&#8217;s or the off white&#8217;s or magnolias. At Stone towers a quiet day with useful musical things done mostly but with no great urgency occurring. Nothing much to report.<br>The washing machine heating element and controller circuit need fixing as suspected so it wont get fixed for a day or two or three. The parts on order from tomorrow but I suspect it wont be fixed until the end of the week.<br><br><strong>Here is my most recent song.<\/strong><\/p>\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%253A2267186984&#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\/and-i-always-loved-you\" title=\"And I Always Loved You\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">And I Always Loved You<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"923\" data-attachment-id=\"179863\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/17\/mid-february-and-its-still-raining\/ganster2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?fit=1204%2C1841&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1204,1841\" 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=\"ganster2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?fit=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?fit=604%2C923&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2-670x1024.jpeg?resize=604%2C923&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179863\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6543038668687716;width:347px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?resize=670%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 670w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?resize=768%2C1174&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?resize=1005%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1005w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ganster2.jpeg?w=1204&amp;ssl=1 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few things are getting under my skin today a bit as the day has progressed. Just life generally a little bit to be honest, not one thing but many small things. I need a Guru, a Yogi, a Sage, a wise man or women to make it make sense&#8230;<br><br>Facebook asked what is on my mind? You really don&#8217;t want to know would be my honest answer right now. A lot of irritating things are going wrong at present and its all getting a bit hard work to deal with the latest thing being the washing machine packing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a another tack entirely I note a huge increase in Ai generated music now on one of the streaming platforms I use to distribute my own works. I listened to a kind of pleasant Latin flavoured pop\/easy listening song and it turned out that the guy was singing on the track but the rest was Ai. It sounded quite good but it just makes me think what&#8217;s the point anymore in one sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything just seems F****d now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worlds gone a bit weird. Trump siding with Putin and also trying to start another war in the middle east by the look of it. All of it seems like some form of collective insanity really from here.<br><br><br><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have ground to a halt again again today. My mood is sort of neutral. I have been hit with an attack of the beige&#8217;s or the off white&#8217;s or magnolias. At Stone towers a quiet day with useful musical things done mostly but with no great urgency occurring. Nothing much to report.The washing machine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/02\/17\/mid-february-and-its-still-raining\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid February And Its Still Raining<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179860,"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-179839","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\/2026\/02\/early-recording.jpg?fit=991%2C691&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KMD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175880,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/07\/05\/you-wont-get-a-second-chance\/","url_meta":{"origin":179839,"position":0},"title":"You Won&#8217;t Get a Second Chance","author":"diana Stone","date":"July 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Or will you, maybe in a quantum world you get infinite goes in the multiverse or is it just time for my meds again? 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