{"id":3849,"date":"2011-08-30T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2012-05-09T18:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:18:41","slug":"overdue-housekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2011\/08\/30\/overdue-housekeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdue Housekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Catching<\/a>
One of many catch-up sessions...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been an absurdly long time since I last posted, and for several reasons — ranging widely from the rather-lovely to the tooth-pullingly-annoying. Time, certainly, for a bit of a catch-up (in the Hello-Again \/ Long Time No See sense) before the proper catch-up can start to happen in the other sense.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a bit of rethink, also, about the peculiar post-dating regime that I’ve used here since I started — where the date of the actual pen-and-paper Diary<\/em>\u00a0entry would be used for the date of the blog post, no matter when it was actually \/ eventually uploaded. That plan was born out of my primary thought that the Beer Diary webthing<\/em> would be an handy online version of the physical document. But I’ve often wanted to write more ‘topical’ stuff — and frequently resorted to shoe-horning it into the discussion of whatever-was-next in the book1<\/sup> — and then the podcasts came along as well and things just got unwieldy and strange and headachy. The sampling-writing-posting calendar mismatches were a common source of puzzled questions, and on one memorable occasion<\/a> caused the surreal situation where some geniunely-lovely praise was accompanied by a charmingly-outraged ‘How on Earth haven’t we seen this before? He’s been blogging for seven years!’, when I’d only been going a few months.<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/a>
Another catch-up session...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So nice timing, really; with the podcasts in-between seasons2<\/sup> and a lack of activity for a while, I can change gears and change the plan. Posts will just get whatever date they get when I with the Big Blue Publish Button, and historical Diary<\/em>\u00a0entries that get uploaded — and I do plan to keep going through them, steadily — will just be labelled obviously-enough. As one last fit of oddness (of that<\/em> kind, others will remain), I’m going to arbitrarily give this<\/em>\u00a0post the time-travelling date3<\/sup> of my birthday last year so that it stands out in the Archive like the gear-change it is, and since the Diary<\/em>\u00a0has its origins as a particuarly-awesome present.<\/p>\n

I’ve been distracted of late, but keeping this blog has been a massively<\/em>\u00a0rewarding experience and I’m delighted to feel a bit of momentum behind getting back into it. I recently left my long-running job at the Malthouse, and have had a bit of time to figure out What’s Next. (Embarrassingly-much of which was taken up by ‘Do I really<\/em>\u00a0want to revise the post-dating scheme on my website?’; I’m a chronic over-thinker.)\u00a0Securing more time to write is key, and I’m also lucky enough with the timing that I get to go to The Great Australasian Beer Spectapular in Melbourne next weekend which will doubtless give me yet more of a prod and plenty to ramble about. So yes: Hello again. Nice to see you after so long.<\/p>\n

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1:<\/strong> Or, on one or two occasions, actually choosing which beer to drink and diarise based largely on its ability to furnish an excuse to write about something in particular.<\/span>
\n2:<\/strong> I do have two episodes ‘in the bank’, as it were, and will endeavour to get them up before I go away for the weekend — not least because the theme of \u2018s02e02\u2019 is also my destination: Australia.<\/span>
\n3:<\/strong> I’m actually writing this in the small hours of Monday, 7 May 2012. While drinking tea and listening to The Three EPs<\/em>\u00a0by The Beta Band, since you ask.<\/span><\/p>\n

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