{"id":180157,"date":"2026-06-02T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=180157"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:45:48","slug":"boldly-going-as-its-now-or-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/06\/02\/boldly-going-as-its-now-or-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Boldly Going as Its Now Or Never"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2330834465&#038;color=%23ff5500&#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\/i-just-dont-understand-the\" title=\"I just dont understand the world anymore\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">I just dont understand the world anymore<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I am trying a few things out. What things I hear you ask? Not telling I say. You will have to wait and see. I am writing and recording a new tune. Might be a song IDK yet. First day I have done much though I have been playing a bit of Piano interspersed with brief spells standing in front of the aircon like Marilyn Munroe over the subway vent grill in the film Seven Year Itch \ud83d\ude02 I have been jolly tired but I think I know why. Its difficult to take on board I imagine. I am very much but for very different reasons trying to make adjustments too but Its hard when certainty is ripped away. I am as much adrift as I was when I was a teenager . What is this adulting thing anyway. The fragile confidence I had gained has temporarily slipped its moorings. <br>Also today I am getting back to recording having started a new tune so I was doing the tracks for that. I had to take a bit of a break as suddenly got very tired. <br><br>Here is a quick tinkle from the Real book. It was a hot day to be sure. <br><br><strong>I&#8217;m Old Fashioned<\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dianastonemusic\/video\/7644635497058422038\" data-video-id=\"7644635497058422038\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" > <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@dianastonemusic\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dianastonemusic?refer=embed\">@dianastonemusic<\/a> <a title=\"dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dianastone?refer=embed\">#dianastone<\/a> <a title=\"piano\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/piano?refer=embed\">#piano<\/a> <a title=\"dianastonemusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/dianastonemusic?refer=embed\">#dianastonemusic<\/a> <a title=\"lovemymusic\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/lovemymusic?refer=embed\">#lovemymusic<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Diana Stone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7644635519896537859?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Diana Stone<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I am really wondering what to do about certain aspects of my life. I am not doing a lot of things I want to due to anxiety that has crept up on me over the last few months and left me sort of frozen or trapped like a fly in amber. Preserved but not going anywhere anytime soon. After a few days of much to warm today I just feel annoyed and tired and irritable and exhausted and trapped&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mini rant incoming: <\/strong><br><br>Some prominent Trans activist people in the UK are saying they will leave the UK and some have already done so if\/encase Reform get in and so forth. I was just about to post &#8220;Guess what you entitled middle class twats, a lot of us can&#8217;t, so whilst you lot swan off we will be fighting it out with our Zimmer frames&#8221; under a comment by a trans activist that wants to do a runner.  My point is most of us cant do that. Yes its their choice. Hardly fucking expressing solidarity though is it. Go on a big march wave your banners and then  run away.   Funniest thing yet. Andy Burnham says with regard to Trans people &#8221; live and let live&#8221; but is now being branded as a Transphobe. Its all gone mad\u2026.I am pretty sure he is not actually.<br><br><strong>End of Mini Rant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have back trouble today which has manifested out of thin air it seems. I had a rough time with the arthritis yesterday and that&#8217;s tired me out big time. I still did manage to do stuff though on the musical front even so. Also I took a stroll around the manor and down to the river which I have not done for quite a while for various reasons. A pleasant enough excursion and I put some injector cleaner in my car as well as its a bit poorly at present. I am not sure if it will actually help but its worth a go.<br>The weather has broken from the heatwave as expected. It makes it a bit easy to actually do stuff theoretically though I am at a standstill today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  <br>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 I just dont understand the world anymore So I am trying a few things out. What things I hear you ask? Not telling I say. You will have to wait and see. I am writing and recording a new tune. Might be a song IDK yet. First day I have done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/06\/02\/boldly-going-as-its-now-or-never\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boldly Going as Its Now Or Never<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180157","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\/05\/jeremysWeddingCrop.jpeg?fit=1435%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KRL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":166233,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2020\/08\/06\/august-2020-week-1-a-new-tune\/","url_meta":{"origin":180157,"position":0},"title":"August 2020 week 1 A new Tune","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Well as ever I started recording something which was supposed to be a song but turned into an instrumental. its weird how that happens right? 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