Starting with the weather

There’s an old writing adage that says: Never begin with the weather. This isn’t fiction, so I’ll begin with the weather. Except, I’m not beginning with the weather, I’m beginning by writing about writing about the weather. I’m so confused.

November is the first month in 2011 where we’ve actually matched or exceeded the average rainfall. We’ve had nearly 4 inches so far this month (average: 3.2″), with more on the way on Friday and Saturday. We’re still 2 feet of rain behind for the year, but with the recent and forthcoming rainfall this won’t be the driest year on record. We’ve already surpassed the 1917 total rainfall.

We’ve broken or tied records for warm days recently, though. It was 84° on Sunday, and felt every bit like it. A cold front passed through yesterday, bringing things back into normal range, and another one this weekend means that it will be 30° cooler on this coming Sunday than last Sunday.

I’m hearing reports from my friends and family of the first significant snowfall of the year in eastern Canada. My daughter sent me a photo of the chemistry building at Dal (where I spent most of my waking hours back in the 1980s) with a nice frosting of snow around it. Some places are getting up to a foot of snow. It looks nice, but it’s probably a headache for people who have to deal with it. I can sit back from a distance and admire it, but if I had to drive through it this morning, I might be cursing it. Or if I was trying to get my winter tires put on and found out all the garages were booked through Friday!

Quite an ending to this week’s Sons of Anarchy episode. I never expected that would actually happen. True, they’ve been putting the characters under so much stress lately that it was inevitable that something explosive would happen, but when it did, I said a bad word. Then I got on Twitter and tweeted a bad word. Only two episodes left for this season.

I have a theory about what’s going on in Dexter this season. I’ll put it behind the cut, so if you’re reading this on LiveJournal you’ll have to click to continue. It would be classified as a spoiler if I had inside info. I don’t, but still you might not want to read this.

I think that Geller is a figment of Travis’s imagination. I think they prepared us as an audience to accept that when Dexter’s brother “came back” last week. I think Travis has some sort of dissociative personality disorder that makes him think he’s taking orders from Geller. No one else has seen the guy. Dexter looked up into the choir loft this week, but only in response to Travis’s movement, and he didn’t see anything. I think he chained himself to the floor, and probably doesn’t even realize he did it. We know there really was a Geller at some point, but he fell off the radar, and maybe Travis had something to do with that. Maybe that was the trigger that set him off down this path.

I also think that the person on the phone with LaGuerta this week was the Chief. Who else would she protect? I can’t think of anyone else among the known cast that it could be, and I can’t see them dredging up some unknown party at this late point in the season.