The bad and the good

Our home internet connection has been malfunctioning for the past couple of days, which is a bit irritating...

...but it won't matter tonight because I'll be too busy curling! The only thing I need to figure out now is what to wear, since our organiser suggested that we wear a "comfortable (ie loose-fitting) pair of pants -- if you happen to have a pair of stretchy double-knit polyester pants hanging in your closet, wear them on Thursday." Loose-fitting pants? After living in Basel for two years? This could get ugly...