Thaï-ï-ï-ï-ï...

Today we went down to Mira Mesa to see the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "Thaïs" in High Definition.  Things were going well.  Athanaël had gotten spiffed up and was ready to try to convert Thaïs.  Just as Thaïs (sung by the latest Lacroix supermodel, Renée Fleming) was about to make her appearance things changed to very low definition.  No sound, very few pixels, no picture, snippets of sound, a few pixels.

Someone came in and hollered that they were going to let it continue like this till the intermission when they'd reestablish their connection with the satellite.  When the intermission was about to end he came back and said that things were hopeless.  We could stay and enjoy the big pixels and no sound or we could get a refund or exchange for the replay on January 7.

We're going to try again on the 7th.  Wish us luck.