{"id":33415,"date":"2016-02-17T22:53:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T22:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=33415"},"modified":"2016-02-17T22:53:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T22:53:38","slug":"violins-and-their-part-in-my-downfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/02\/17\/violins-and-their-part-in-my-downfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Violins and their part in my downfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just spent another hour trying to put a violin part on a track. Its just not working, even with all the right notes in the right order \ud83d\ude09 Very frustrating indeed. Its getting tantalisingly near but is still not quite right. Should I keep on trying or move on to something else. Often if things don&#8217;t work its best to let them go, but I have not quite hit that point yet. \u00a0I am feeling very uninspired frankly. \u00a0 I do feel a bit (as in lack of affect, as though psych types would say)flat and suspect I am mildly depressed and may be that&#8217;s why I can&#8217;t get a sufficient head of steam up. Fortunately there are a couple of gigs this weekend and a visit to Islington Folk Club \u00a0so that will stop me from sulking around the flat for too long. In between attempting to \u00a0do other stuff I have been continuing my quest to tidy up, though to be honest its not looking any different yet.<\/p>\n<p>Its amazing how many ways you can avoid doing things, my &#8220;to do list&#8221; is not getting any shorter yet.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a blast from the past. Our second old faithful band van, which took us to a few exotic places. Note the orange light \u00a0and what appear to be two grenade launchers on top. That&#8217;s what you call a hard core van.<br \/>\nActually I think it was a plasterer&#8217;s or maybe a plumbers van as it had some weird gubbins in the back door.<br \/>\nI always liked Transit vans, they were pretty comfortable really.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The old Elephant Van\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/diana_stone\/13975239886\/in\/datetaken-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7182\/13975239886_2928529cd5.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The old Elephant Van\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just spent another hour trying to put a violin part on a track. Its just not working, even with all the right notes in the right order \ud83d\ude09 Very frustrating indeed. Its getting tantalisingly near but is still not quite right. Should I keep on trying or move on to something else. Often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/02\/17\/violins-and-their-part-in-my-downfall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Violins and their part in my downfall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-33415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-8GX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":103676,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2018\/01\/04\/january-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":33415,"position":0},"title":"January 2018","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I am starting the year on a low. 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