James was off to work, so I was on my own. I got up not long after he left for work and did some housework and also put up the other two posters in my craft room: the Star Blazers wedding scene and an old, drawn map of Newport (I know it's old; the Brick Marketplace and the stores at Bowen's Wharf are there, so it was after they reclaimed Thames Street, but Newberry's was still open). ::sniff:: Miss Newberry's. There was a box full of assorted junk that I culled out, too.

Went out for a while—picked up a book called The Thanksgiving Ceremony with a half-off coupon and also did a bit of grocery shopping—then came home and properly installed my XM radio antenna; it's been sitting on my dashboard since I got it. It was cool enough today to take the Sirius antenna off and put the new one on, although the sun was a bit much after a while.

After tossing more laundry in the washer, sat down and watched Bambi II and was pleasantly surprised. Nothing can match the craftsmanship of the original, but it didn't fall into the pitfalls of some of the other Disney direct-to-video animated movies like Scamp's Adventure, with this big conflict between the older and younger generations, and Thumper's sisters were just pesty little sisters, not brainless goofheads like Scamp's sisters. The opening winter scenes were very beautiful and the chase at the end exciting. I noticed they also took a few things from Salton's original novel, including the obnoxious Ronno (although he sounded more like a modern obnoxious kid), Man's deer lure and Bambi hearing his mother's voice, and Mina (who I believe is killed by dogs in the book, but I haven't read Bambi in ages).

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