For those of you who had been following the Blog for the month of October (Thanks!) I started off the month with a premise I thought was pretty cool and workable.
The 2024 Pumpkin Beer Battle. Per usual, I got full into the swing of things and then life got in the way. For starters, there were a few late entries (really late…like after round 4 late). Now that’s marketing, but it would have required me to taste and judge quite a bit of beer, in a short time.
Additionally, we’d had internet issues, and I missed a week. I was originally going to simply call it a bye week and cram both Quarter Final rounds into a single post, but that didn’t sit right with me…and life continued to happen. So here I am. I could lump the quarter finals, and the semi finals into separate posts, and this would have been the Final round, but the shine has kind of worn off the whole thing and, again with the late entries, I didn’t feel like I was giving them a fair shake (There are still some beers I haven’t tasted yet, and probably won’t), and ultimately, I didn’t want to hastily slap-dash the ending together while I’m out on the road.
So I’m pulling the plug on this idea.
Which, in and of itself, is a good thing to remember: “I don’t want this for myself anymore,” is a very good reason – if fact, it is the only reason you really need – to stop doing something.
Now, in relation to the title of the post, some might argue, that since I’ve come this far, I might as well finish it up. That argument is kinda rubbish – even for something as low-stakes as a series of blog posts documenting a fictional competition.
If you decide that whatever it is, is not for you any longer, then stop. It isn’t as if you’ve wasted the time you spent up until this point. You’ve spent that time coming to the conclusion that, whatever it is, this thing you’re doing isn’t for you.
Think of it as research if you need to – like science. And, at this point, it’s good to remember that science is wrong all the time. The other thing to remember is is that it doesn’t keep on going in the same direction once it’s determined that it’s wrong.
It doesn’t matter how much time and effort went in before it came to that conclusion. The wrong direction is the wrong direction and the smartest thing you can do is to stop going in that wrong direction, and try a new one.
And that’s what I’m doing here. I think you can tell which of the beers were going to make the quarters, and possibly even the semis, based on the scoring. I’ll leave it up to you to determine the winner…if that’s still the direction you want to go.
Me? I’m moving on.
Thanks for reading. Be safe out there. Be Excellent to Each other – and yourself.
I’ll see you on Thursday.
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