all this talk of (deflated) balls on the news, i went out in search of my own balls - cedar balls that is, for my dresser drawers. i checked target online and they didn't have any in stock at the somerville store. i walked to the nearby dollar store, hoping they might carry some. all they carried were an assortment of artificial air fresheners, but i really wanted the natural freshening power of scented wood. i did however leave the store with a pair of county fair drinking jars (a dollar a piece). only when i got home did i notice the warning on the glass, "no for hot products."

i tagged along with my parents on a supply run to the restaurant depot and costco. i myself didn't get anything until a final stop at the assembly square ac moore where i bought a six-pack of bell wide mouth one quart mason jars for $6, to further my fermentation/pickling experiments.

after dropping off the supplies back at the cafe, my father and i unboxed the new samsung printer that'd arrived earlier. it's much smaller that i'd imagined, a whole mess of features crammed into a cube. no time to play with it, my father will set it up tomorrow.

i went with my parents to belmont where i had some squid nugget soup for dinner before getting a ride back to cambridge. it would've been an early night for me where it not for accidentally logging into facebook and getting sucked into reading other people's updates for over an hour.