Fall Could Arrive Soon

Fall may arrive here soon. ...No, not official, "astronomical" autumn, which starts in a few days, on September 22. Observed fall. Actual weather based fall. ...My personal definition of it, anyway. 😅

As I've written before, I like to note that fall has begun when the weather turns cool enough that I wear pants or turn on the heat. Also, here in California with our rainfall pattern, the first real rainfall is a sign of fall's arrival. All of these indicators may occur in the next few days!

The weather's turned cool enough the past few days that I could wear pants. After brutal heat just a week ago it cooled off enough to drop below 60° F (15.5° C) overnight. If I were going out in late evenings or early in the morning I might've chosen to wear pants. Instead, because daytime high temperatures remained well into the 70s, I continued dressing in shorts. What's that saying— "Dress for the weather you want, not the weather you've got"? 🤣 Likewise, I thought about turning the heat on, but the house stayed warm enough overnight with the windows closed.

Now the forecast is turning fall-ish. Sunday is forecast for a high of just 69°. We might opt to turn the heat on. And there's a strong chance of rain! Not just a freak, 10-minute drizzle like we had last weekend due to an unusual tropical storm arriving off the coast of Southern California, but a legit rain shower with a weather front coming down from Alaska that might drop 1/2" (about 1cm) of rain in some parts of the region.

Plus, of course, pumpkin spice everything is arriving in stores, so you know fall is coming! 🤣

Game of Thrones: Spoiler: Everyone Dies

Last night I watched Game of Thrones Season 3 Episodes 2-3. This blog post isn't about those specific episodes as much as it's about what happened when I browsed The Game of Thrones Wiki today to understand a few scenes I was confused about. The pages that detail individual episodes are great. They provide lots of information about what's happening— including critical details that are sometimes really not obvious in the TV screenplay— without spoiling what happens later in the story. When you click a link to read more about an interesting character, though, watch out!



The "bios" on individual characters all have opening sentences like, "Person X did A and B until they were killed by C during D." I clicked on pages for 3 characters and all 3 of them had spoilers like that right at the top.

At first I was frustrated about this. The wiki writers could have done much better to not spoil the series for people who are just watching it for the first time! But then I considered what anybody who hasn't been living under a rock for the past 10 years already knows: In The Game of Thrones basically everybody dies.



I'm not even the first to think about that. Millions of fans have been frustrated about it.



I had fun looking up memes about how "Everybody Dies" in Game of Thrones. I've included in this blog post some of my favorites.







No, I won't tell you which three characters I clicked on and learned are goners. Unlike seemingly everyone else, I won't spoil the story for you! ...Except to remind you, of course, that basically everyone dies. 🤣