I had to go to Lowe's

I had to go to Lowe's, the real crafting store. This happens a lot because the closest box-chair superstore is half a mile away. I needed sandpaper and I couldn't wait. My last quarter sheets of 120- and 220-grit sandpaper were now no-grit and I had two wands to finish before I lost sunlight.

At the store, I found more than I'm looking for, naturally. 120 grit sandpaper yeah 220 yeah yeah -- but what's this? 180-grit sandpaper? Not as coarse as the 120 and yet not so fine as the 220. My heart double-beat. I brushed my fingers over the sandpaper's dusty red surface. The grit tickled my fingertips. I gurgled.

My adventures with sandpaper seem unending. I slid the package of 180 in-between the packages of 120 and 220 I had already selected. With wands in the hopper, I was almost giddy. What was wrong with me? Oh right, I was in a hardware store.

I walked away. I didn't need anything else but I couldn't leave without swinging by the rotary tool accessories display. That's where all the Dremel-accessory fans congregate, of course. And normally the display would be right there, directly to the right of the self-checkout area, but today it was not. Christmas sales were already in place. The entire far side of the store was a-glitter with ornaments and trees and large blow-up yard things. Everything else had been shifted to the right to make room for the expansive holiday.

I trudged back into the weeds of the power tools section, and found the rotatary accessories' new home in the very most back corner aka the dead zone. My favorite place in the huge store.

I eyed the selection. There was nothing new. I picked out a detail abrasive brush to finish the notches in the Cedar 107. I hadn't used one of these in a while, since I can use a fold of sandpaper in the notch, but the brush would more easily even out its shape.

(I didn't open the package in the store. I took it home first.)

The store was plenty busy. A fellow shopper even passed through the rotary tool accessory section, walking by where I was standing. Traffic jam in Aisle 5092!  I don't know what he was looking for but apparently it was directly behind me. When I moved out of his way, one step over, I encountered the larger rotary tool accessories.

And there I saw the Right-Angle Attachment. Heart fluttered. I could really cut some right angles with a tool like that.

I poked at the packaging. $30. Hmm. Christmas is coming. Santa is coming (after Halloween)!