Towards the end of last year, I did a couple of write-ups of my two weekday coffee makers - the AeroPress and the American Press. Now it’s time for what I call my “Sunday coffee maker” - the Chemex.

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This time last year, I sat down with the remnants of a Hogmanay hangover and went over my resolutions for the 2015 year, marked off what I had and hadn’t achieved, and wrote down my plans for 2016.

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Over the last two years, as expected, I’ve drifted apart from a lot of people I consider close friends. People I grew up with, people I expect to still be friends with for a long time to come. We no longer see each other passively; since moving to Edinburgh, it now takes effort and conscious thought to maintain relationships.

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When I first started this blog a year or so ago, I wasn’t really clear on how I should be using tags and categories. Naturally, I did neither correctly. This week I went through and corrected my existing tag/categories to categories, and added a bunch of new tags to my posts.

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Last Thursday, I spent the night in Glasgow at the SSE Hydro watching funk-rock legends the Red Hot Chili Peppers as they toured with their latest album The Getaway. As one of my three favourite rock acts of all time, I had naturally been looking forward to this for quite a while.

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As of September 2016, I no longer track cash as a separate YNAB account. Aside from bus fare (Transport for Edinburgh really need to catch on to the Transport for London model), I have very little need to carry any cash at all anymore.

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