After hearing about how great last year’s South by South-west (SXSW) was, I quite fancied going. There’s a whole Brit contingent making the trip this year, which would have been fun to ride the coattails of. As you can infer from the title of this post, though, I’m not going. I don’t personally have the money, I didn’t ask work whether the training budget would stretch, and (to be honest, this is the main reason) I wouldn’t want to be out of the country for a week when Kathy’s six months pregnant.

However, like the Murphy’s, I’m not bitter.