A couple of things that I decided to get today that I had been needing for a while but never really thought to get: a flashlight and a toolbox.

Every once in a while I have required the use of a flashlight and never have had it on hand. I have had other small flashlights but I figured that if I were going to get one, I’d get one that could get run over by a Mack truck and still function properly. That’s right…a Maglite, baby! And I found it in a nice crimson, too.

Getting the flashlight made me think, as I was in Wal-Mart, that I really needed something to put all of my tools in. Most of my tools before this afternoon had resided in the bottom cubby of my Yaffa blocks, but not all of them. I needed a central location. And I found a nice-sized one (19″ by 12 1/2″, which is plenty big for me) for 10 dollars. So now my admittedly limited arsenal of tools has a permanent home.

Now, if I only had a reason to actually use the tools…