It's about 9:30pm here in Bangkok, and Claudia and I are fighting with the phone system. We were hoping to each make a few fam holiday calls, but the phones don't like us. We haven't been able to get anything to work, on any phone we've seen!

The place we're staying at seems to have us sorted out, at last. Claudia's (hopefully) on the horn right now, and I'm looking up my dad's number so I can ring him.

Sheesh. But oh well. It's been a minor adventure, anyway. Merry Christmas, and for certain peeps out there, may the next jing-jing-jangle you hear be a phone ringing...