Here’s a month in reflection:

NYC is best spent with someone. I can’t go there alone again without an objective, someone by my side, and keeping myself busy.
I meet the occasional person who I wasn’t expecting. Once again, that happened. The challenge is to keep it up in the meantime.
Next time I get the flu, 3 [...]

…it was all over.
What the heck? Where did SXSWi go? All of a sudden, it’s over. Out with the old and in with the new.
Can I get a do over? Please? I didn’t do nearly as much as I really wanted to, I didn’t make the connections I hope I had, and I was sick [...]

I do not recommend it. I think it’s a poor idea to get sick while attending a big conference. It hurts to talk, most people can’t understand or hear you and you kinda just fade in the background. Never again!
Come on, body, heal yourself!