No, seriously, is it snowing? This is nowhere near as peaceful as last time, the sky is storm yellow, and it's chucking it down.

Kind of weird. This means I can't go chalk paving anymore for a bit.

Is it snowing?

It's been a while since I posted.
Oh well. It's in the middle of the holidays, and I'm considering getting a job, so I can afford my expensive tastes.

But, for your viewing pleasure, here is my Wii list:

Wii
Wii Remote (4)
Nunchuck (2)
Wii Sports
Wii Play
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Mario Party 8
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Metroid 3: Corruption
Animal Crossing Wii
Super Mario Galaxy

Today is July the 21st. So, in the afternoon, I popped over to the book store, and picked up a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Now, I don't want to try to construct the review so it doesn't have any spoilers, so instead the entire review is one big spoiler. Don't blame me if this ruins the book for you, because it will.

( Spoiler Tastic )

It is raining.

The power of this rain astounds me. Look at it, in it's massive droplets, falling from the sky at great speed.
But, what is really powerful, is the way the sky glows.

Somehow, in the height of summer, we have been stricken by powerful weather conditions. Of course, when I say powerful, I mean turbulent and unpredictable. It will be sunny, and within an hour, the sky will cloud over, and a strong wind will blow.

The storms today are powerful, I should know, I cycled today in one, just as it was clearing up, but you can still see that almost imperceptible glow around the horizon, which I estimate to be slightly yellow tinged.

The lightning, and the thunder is intense.

But even when I got home today, as I finished a book, the sky was shining with a brilliant whiteness, from it's dull grey murkiness a few minutes earlier, and the rain was dashing against the windows.

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The glow around the sky
Is matched by the obscuring mist

The rain dives, screaming onto the ground
Thunder pumps, like blood in the ears

And the lightning strikes

Where do I begin?

Beats me.

Or in other words, a list of things to do before you die. But doing them while you're alive sounds a bit more pleasant, you know?

Okay, now there are a hell of a lot of things that people should do before they die, and this is my personal list. Anything, I've already done is marked, but that doesn't mean you can't. It's going to expand frequently.

In no particular order:

Visit CERN
Go skydiving
Learn braille
Climb above the clouds
Watch the sun rise *
See a total solar eclipse *
See a total lunar eclipse
Go stargazing for a night
Candle lit dinner
See a rainbow *
Be a parent
Go swimming with dolphins
Read War and Peace
Tell someone you love them
Dance in the rain
Give someone flowers
See the northern lights
Meditate in a tranquil setting
Stand beneath a waterfall

Now, surely there are more of these, but no more come to mind at this time. Watch this space, I'll keep a note.

I think I'm in love.

Sigh. If only I could have one.

And now for some deep thought on the matter.

Do I need a Permanent Account?

At the moment, I've just turned on Plus to see what nifty features you get, and currently I'm quite impressed.

But being Permanent gives a status, and a lot of features I'm pretty sure I would use. I mean, now I'm using tags all of a sudden, and making public posts, and my private posts go back more than a year.

So, maybe I should give something back to Livejournal, and buy their limited offer of a Permanent account, and revel in the fact that I don't have to pay any more, ever again.

A Paid account, with minimum expense, costs 25 dollars a year. This means that if I buy the Permanent account now, I'll start saving money on it, in six years. That's a very long time away; that's in 2013. God, it sounds so futuristic, and special.

I'm going to think about it today, and try and convince the people in charge of my financial ability to give away that 110 euros that this would require. I certainly don't have that money available, and Paypal needs to have a Credit Card to verify it. Why does the world feel that Credit Cards are the must have item?

Still, my heart's currently set on it. So watch this space, and if I grow an extra two billion userpics, and the adverts vanish, then you'll know it's happened.

Oh. My. God.

Yeah, sure the word structure is a bit silly, but if I thought the last episode was good, then this takes it to a whole new level.

I'm talking about the Doctor Who episode, the Sound of Drums. I'm actually shivering as I write these words, and I'm all tense.

Okay, first of all let's deal with all the boring stuff, like the non review stuff. Sorry for not posting. I'm going to do more in future. Let's do special features or something.

Anyway, now that the uninteresting stuff is done, let's just review!

Review

I've already summarized it at the top of this post, but those who haven't seen the Doctor Who episode should really look away now. As in now. Seriously.

The cliffhanger from last episode ends really abruptly as the sonic screwdriver simply acts again as a tool for moving the plot along. Besides, resolving silly things like escaping from the future would merely take us away from the action.

But it turns out that Mr Saxon is a lot more evil than we originally thought. Oh, and the name, referring to the acoustics of a certain type of percussion, actually has a lot more meaning then you originally thought, and why everyone is voting Saxon is shown, and it's so simple, so tiny, so meaningless, that it all fits in perfectly.

I mean, wow, the skies split asunder, and look Time Lord exposition, and nods to old series, and alien globe things, and the Master basically fitting in very well in his role. He's the master of everything, unless Martha can run in and save the day. I have to admit, I expected her to warp backwords a week or something.

But playing Voodoo Child? Come on, that's just cheap, but funny, and they didn't keep the joke going too long. And the red TARDIS? I thought that the black gauze was the most creepy. And the convenient easy to read dial, with a clearly defined red zone.

To be honest, the TARDIS in this episode reminded me of Ganondorf's tower in Ocarina of Time. That's a Zelda reference for you uneducated people out there.

But I'm tense all over, and I thought it was stunning, and well written. Sure you could poke holes in some flaws, but I thought it was tremendously well executed.

I'm staying away from all spoilers. I'm not even watching the 10 second preview trailer. I'm going to ignore my sister, at all times.

9 out of 10. Very good, I might add.

When someone decides to start making public posts in addition to their private ones, suddenly, how your Livejournal looks is very important.

Suddenly, all of those features such as the multiple userpics, and the photo Scrapbook service seems so much more appealing.

Of course, we all would like to someday start blogging, and have a crowd of devoted readers, some of whom will worhship the very ground we stand on. That, obviously, will never happen, but I can start writing anyway.

Think of this as a text based version of Ytterbium, except probably covering subjects a bit too verbose for a barely updated twenty minute long podcast.

With this Goldtetryl, I will comment on news, and TV, and movies, and just about everything, while making personal comments under my breath, so you can't hear them.

So, without further ado, let's begin with the review of the 11th episode of Doctor Who, Utopia.

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Summary

Wow. Just wow. I mean, the last episode, Blink, was really good, but this episode really has some excellent points in it, and it turns out to be a three part story, instead of a one off, as originally thought. Oh my god, the professor is the Master! And Mr Saxon is the Master, (but we already worked that out).

Internal Commentary

I mean, you know, they arrive in Cardiff, and suddenly, there's Captain Jack (hurray!), and then we're in the year 100 trillion, (or 10^14), where apparently humans are food for, basically, angry bikers with teeth. Typically, the TARDIS is lost as soon as the episode begins, but you start to wonder where the conflict is going to come from, when they recover the box.
And then, with Professor Yana's sound of drums (that's the name of the next episode... hmm, suspicious), it turns out that he has a watch, a la Family of Blood, and lo and behold, it's the Face of Boe's Prophecy, and wait, look he opened the watch! Oh noes! We're all doomed, Mr Saxon has the TARDIS! Damn you BBC, we will resolve this once and for all, once this three parter has concluded!

Although initially you wonder where the conflict is really going to come from, since everything seems to be going well, the episode quickly turns out not to be about the escape of humanity, but the awakening of an old foe. Throw in some dialogue about Captain Jack, Martha looking glum as the Doctor relates stories of Rose, and the Master's return, and you've got a nice episode.

Let's end our first review with an 8/10.

Here it is, the Required Public Post(tm). I need to put one here, so all you people who want to be my friend can comment on how this is not the case.

So there.