I know, I know. It’s unforgivable to not update the blog for months on end. I have no excuse, except that since we moved in last October we still have no phone, Internet or cable TV connection. The installation of a phone and DSL line was postponed several times, and I guess I was just getting lazy waiting for that to happen. I could have gone elsewhere to connect, or updated the blog from work, but somehow it feels like a blog about the house must be updated from the house. Anyway, I didn’t want to end the year without a post, so here is one posted over a temporary and ridiculously slow GPRS connection from a laptop. When I’m lucky I get about 1kbps using this PCMCIA card.

We have had a good Christmas in the Asia House. Normally we’d leave town and celebrate somewhere else, but this year it just felt right to spend it at home. We have hit the sauna a couple of times, we’ve watched tons of movies, and we’ve definitely eaten too much food. Oh, and we adorned the garden with Christmas lights:

Belated Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and may you all have a wonderful, happy 2009! May I also very soon finally get that phone and DSL connection that Globe Telecom promised me last week…