Spillproof Desiccant Boxes for Dry Box (Cereal Box)

https://www.printables.com/model/989429-spillproof-desiccant-boxes-for-dry-box-cereal-box/comments

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Printed in Clear PETG - (note to self: Prusa MK4s desiccant-box-for-cereal-box)

Put in my filament boxes - to replace bags.  

Will experiment with putting them in a filament dryer to refresh desiccant

(Have new skill - can spell desiccant - one s 2 Cs)...

 Prusa XL - PETG + PLA

Selected 0.20mm BREAKAWAY FULL

- fillament settings/advanced/minimal purge on wipe tower - 35mm

Pick a single extruder for the wipe tower - PETG extruder:

- Print settings -> Multiple Extruders -> Wipe tower extruder

- Print settings -> Multiple Extruders -> Stabilisation cone apex angle (under wipe tower):85

PETG As PLA support

Print Settings  - soluble full

Print Settings -> Support Material: With Sheath around the support : disable

Set the extruder where you put the petg (by default it selects extruder 2)

 Print Settings -> Multiple Extruders / support material/raft/skirt extruder

 Print Settings -> Multiple Extruders / support material/raft/interface extruder:

Note: This feature can only be used with Organic Supports when using a Wipe tower. Changing the support extruder with any other support style than Organic will disable the wipe tower.

Heat bed temperature:

Print Settings -> Multiple Extruders -> Extruders -> Bed temperature by extruder.

The setting specifies the extruder to take the bed temperature from. Setting it to zero uses the default logic that the first layer temperature is always taken from the first printing extruder, and all other layers' bed temperature is taken from the first extruder that prints the second layer. 

I set the bed temperature extruder to 1 with pla and then I modified the pla bed temp to 65 degrees

Support Style

When using snug supports, check in the sliced object for parts of the support material that might be very tall and thin, as these might fall or break in the middle of the print. If you notice them in your sliced object, we recommend changing the support pattern, and/or changing the support style to grid. 

When using organic supports, don't use interface layers, or they will create unprintable artifacts.

Bed Temperature

Try bed temp of 65degrees and use satin sheet

Useful References

- https://help.prusa3d.com/article/combining-materials-xl_498103

- https://www.reddit.com/r/prusa3d/comments/192uvun/mixing_pla_and_petg_for_supports_on_the_xl/

https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/original-prusa-xl-tool-changer-how-do-i-print-this-printing-help/what-bed-temp-sheet-for-printing-pla-with-petg-supports/

 CSID Foods

Fruits

avocado

blackberries

blueberries

boysenberries

cherries

cranberries, fresh

currants

figs, raw

gooseberries

grapes

kiwifruit

lemons

limes

loganberries

olives

papaya / paw paw

pears

pomegranates

prunes

raspberries

rhubarb

strawberries

Vegetables & Legumes

alfalfa sprouts

artichoke, globe*

arugula

asparagus*

bamboo shoots

bok choy

broccoli*

brussels sprouts*

cabbage*

cauliflower*

celery

chard

chicory

chives

collard greens

cress

cucumber

eggplant

endive

green beans

kale

lettuce

mung bean sprouts

mushrooms

mustard greens

peppers (red, yellow, green)

radishes

rutabaga

spaghetti squash

spinach

tomatoes

turnips

yellow squash

zucchini (courgette)

Possible Grains

whole grain breads or those made with stone-ground flour 
grains that contain whole oats, barley, or bran 
Whole-wheat pasta, quinoa, lentils, brown rice, or wild rice 

Maybe
Nuts and nut butters

Dairy

 cow’s milk, ricotta cheese, plain cottage cheese, sour cream, butter, cream ,whipping cream, and hard cheeses like cheddar, Colby, mozzarella, Swiss, Parmesan, and provolone.

Suggested

Bega String Cheese - should have no maltose and no sucrose

mozzarella

Meat

Meat - all

Bacon - without sugar

Ham - without sugar

Salami - without sugar and starch

Fats

ost fats and oils, such as butter, margarine, olive oil, and vegetable oil, 

Drinks

Posible

Unsweetened apple juice - not too much

Sugars

 Aspartame (nutrasweet), • Dextrose (glucose),  • Fructose • Crystalline fructose • Lactose  

Seems ok: Agave nectar 

Maybe

• Acesulfame-K  (acesulfame-potassiumace-K) • Agave nectar • Corn syrup • High fructose corn syrup • Equal • Honey • Hydrogenated starch,  • Invert sugar or syrup • Maltose • Saccharin (sweet n’ low) • Stevia (truvia) • Sucralose (Splenda) • Sugar alcohols (erythritol, lactitol, sorbitol, mannitol, maltitol, xylitol) 

Good Reference: https://www.csidcares.org/treatment/sugars/

Info

Foods with naturally occurring sucrose of less than 2 grams per 100 grams of food are generally tolerated

Avoid

Maltodextrose

Sources

https://www.csidcares.org/treatment/diet/

https://www.anthc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/CSID-Store-Bought-Food-Guide_web.pdf

https://intermountainhealthcare.org/ckr-ext/Dcmnt?ncid=529333766

https://www.csidcares.org/food-fruit/

Food Composition Database - https://www.csidcares.org/treatment/food-composition-database/

http://www.csidinfo.com/grains.htm

Gloomhaven Boxes

 We got ourselves Gloomhaven for Christmas.  I've been looking around for some ways to make boxes using my cricut.

The standard recommendation is https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/cardbox/

It has lots of different types of boxes and generates out different formats including cricut svg.

It is working today but when I looked around Christmas its backend was down and I was concerned it was going away.

As a game specific box generator, I found this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/ffv9hp/folding_cardboard_for_inserts_instead_of_foamcore/

The kind poster created a generator for boxes, token holders and other game specific options: 

https://deckinabox.sgenoud.com/

Both of these sites are brilliant and deserve coffee :-)

Things That Go in our Kitchen

Things We have to store in our kitchen

Counter - or use frequently

• toaster
• kettle
• coffee machine
• grinder
• kitchen aid
• knife block
• rice cooker

Other

• cutlery
• cooking utensils - daily
• cooking utensils - baking
• extra knifes, carving fork
• peelers
• clips
• ice block making bits
• chop sticks
• skewers
• baking paper, alfoil, glad wrap
• zip lock bags, freezer bags
• rubbish bags
• dish washing liquid
• dish washer tablets
• cleaning fluids - disinfectant, windex, gumption, spray and wipe
• oven mits
• fry pans
• saucepan
• wok
• ceramic cooking containers (white ones)
• slow cooker
• big food processor
• little food processor
• blender
• juicer
• ice cream maker
• baking trays
• cooling racks
• cake tins
• biscuit cutters
• piping bags
• mugs
• coffee cups
• glasses
• wine glasses
• plates
• small plates
• breakfast bowls
• bigger bowls
• white bowls
• perspex bowls
• big plastic bowls
• little silver bowls
• little tiny silver bowls
• egg cups
• plastic containers and lids - big  -cakes and biscuits
• plastic containers and lids - cooking, day to day storage
• plastic containers and lids - small
• childrens lunch boxes
• childrens thermos
• childrens and our regular water bottles
• vases
• blender extra bits
• food processor extra bits
• kitchen aid extra bits

Food

• stock
• tins
• pasta
• rice
• sultanas
• dried fruit
• pizza bases and wraps
• sprinkles and cake decorating
• onions and potatos
• potato chips
• tea
• spices
• oils and vinegars
• breakfast cereal
• flour  and other bits for baking
• sugar

Hall Way Closet

• batteries
• torches
• light bulbs
• matches
• string
• first aid - band aids
• roomba and braava accessories
• baking extras
• fly sprays
• cleaning fluid
• tool kit

Kitchen Use Cases

• Make Toast: Go to fridge, get bread, go to toaster, toast bread, Get plate. Get knife. get butter and honey.  Apply butter and honey.
• Make Breakfast Cereal - get bowl, get cereal, get milk from fridge. poor cereal into bowl. pour milk in bowl. get spoon.  put milk away. put cereal away.
• Make tea.  Put water in kettle. Turn kettle on.  Get Mug.  Get Tea.  Put tea bag in Mug.  Pour Kettle water into mug.  Put tea bag in compost. 
• Put groceries Away.  Bring groceries from car.  Put on floor and a surface.  Put things into fridge, pantry.
• Cook Risotto.  Get pot.  Get stock. Get Onion.  Get chicken from fridge.  Get arborio rice.  Get mushrooms from fridge. Get cutting board for chicken.  Get knife. Chop Chicken. Wash knife in sink.  Put chopping board in sink.  Get chopping board for vegetables.  Chop vegetables.  Cook on stove top.  Get bowls/plates.  Dish out.  Get forks.
• Cook Biscuits.  Get butter.  Get scales.  Get flour.  Get sugar.  Get vanilla.  Get baking powder.  Get Bowl.  Get Spoon.  Use Kitchen Aid.  Put kitchen aid contents in a bowl.  Get biscuit tray.  Get baking paper.  Put biscuits on tray.  Pre heat oven. Put tray in oven.  Take tray out of oven.  Put tray on cooling racks.  

Want

• dishwasher near sink
• dishwasher near cutlery, plates and glasses
• stove needs counter on both sides
• oven needs countertop near by
• stove prep area near sink
• cutlery near stove prep area

Circuit Playground Notes

Circuit Playground

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-circuit-playground

It has:

• 10 x mini NeoPixels, each one can display any rainbow color
• 1 x Motion sensor (LIS3DH triple-axis accelerometer with tap detection, free-fall detection)
• 1 x Temperature sensor (thermistor)
• 1 x Light sensor (phototransistor)
• 1 x Sound sensor (MEMS microphone)
• 1 x Mini speaker (magnetic buzzer)
• 2 x Push buttons, left and right
• 1 x Slide switch
• 8 x alligator-clip friendly input/output pins
• Includes I2C, UART, and 4 pins that can do analog inputs/PWM output
• All 8 pads can act as capacitive touch inputs
• Green "ON" LED so you know its powered
• Red "#13" LED for basic blinking
• Reset button

To program it you can use the arduino ide.  There are lots of programs available that do fun stuff that you can just download and install but first you have to setup your computer so you can talk to the circuit playground.

If you are using windows you will need to install a driver:

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-circuit-playground/windows-setup

They say just install ALL the drivers so you are ready for any of their boards.

Then you want to install the arduino ide:

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-circuit-playground/arduino-1-dot-6-x-ide

It looks like they've made it really easy and you just have to click the green button (some of my clients have great difficulties following instructions like that but I have every confidence in you).

Then you need to follow the instructions on that page so it can get the details of the adafruit boards.

Then you have to install the circuit playground libraries:

https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-circuit-playground/libraries

And again you can click the green button.  You have to put that in your arduino sketches library folder.  

So this is their instructions for libraries but below I've pulled out the path for you and given you a link to the windows page so you can skip some info if you're bored/impatient.

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-all-about-arduino-libraries-install-use/arduino-libraries

as a windows user you need to know where to put it and then follow the windows instructions.

On Windows and Macintosh machines, the default name of the folder is "Arduino" and is located in your Documents folder.

This is a common source of confusion on Windows and Mac machines, your sketchbook folder is not named "sketchbook" it is named "Arduino"!

User installed libraries should go in a folder named "Libraries", located inside your sketchbook folder. This is where the IDE will look for user installed libraries. 

Windows instructions:

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-all-about-arduino-libraries-install-use/installing-a-library

Then you can run the demo: https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-circuit-playground/libraries#run-the-demo

Also see:

https://learn.adafruit.com/circuit-playground-lesson-number-0

Mum's Garlic Prawns

4 cloves of garlic
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 Tbs black peppercorns crushed
2 tsp lemon juice
1 Tbs brandy
500 g green prawns shelled, cleaned and split lengthways.
Olive oil
chopped parsely

Crush garlic with salt, add crushed ppercorns, lemon juice and brandy together.  Mix well.

Place prawns in saucepan (or individual ??? dishes)
Add garlic mixture and enough olive oil to just cover.
Cook quickly until prawns just change colour.
Servce hot and sizzling in small bowls garnished with chopped parsely.

Mum's Salmon Casserole

Mum put (economical - serves 6) for this one.  My sister made it for my oldest brother this year because it was his favourite.  And there were always some left over chips in the packet.  I seem to remember potato straws being used for a while.

16 ounce can salmon
2 medium sized onions sliced
1 large packet potato chips
1 pound sliced tomatoes
4 ounces grated tasty cheese
2 cups cooked rice
salt & pepper

Drain liquid from salmon and keep
Place alternate layers of:
salmon, onion, tomato and rice in a large cassole dish, seasoning each layer to taste.
Pour salmon liquid over the top and cook in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.

Just before serving, spread thickly with the grated cheese and crushed potato chips and return to oven for a few minutes.
Serve with salad and crisps.

Mum's Apple or Fruit Crumble

She put Cheap Lunch next to this one.

Place
about 4 stewed apples in pie dish or peaches tinned etc.

Sprinkle crumble over fruit.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 15 - 10 minutes.

Crumble:
Cream 2 ounces sugar and 10 ounces of butter (a pint jug is good for mixing)

Stir in with a fork - 1/2 cup of flour.

Serve with custard - hot or cold.

Mum's Baked Apples

Mum used to make these for desert sometimes.  Especially once we were grown ups coming back for dinner.  And Later she did them in the microwave.

1 Apple (cooking) per person
for each apple:
1 clove
1 level teaspoon sugar
6 sultanas
1 little butter
icing sugar

Wash, dry and core apples, leaving some apple at the flour (???)
Fill hole with sugar, clove, sultana and butter.

Slit skin around centre to prevent from bursting.
Place in pie dish with little water.
Bake in moderate oven, 30 minutes or until tender.
Baste frequently.

Serve with remaining syrup, icing sugar and maybe custard.

Mum's Pavlova

This was a feast day meal - birthdays and high holidays.

Beat 6 egg whites then add slowly
1 1/2 cups castor sugar
1/2 tsp salt

Fold in:
3 tsp vinegar
vanilla
3 dis pp corn flour (that may be teaspoons)

then only beat 1 minute

Swirl on greased paper in cake shape and make vertical stripes with knife round edge.
Cook at F200 - 250 for 2 hours

When cool fill with wipped cream and strawberries

Fanforced - cent 110 decgres

Hints:

Add sugar in small amounts (1/2 of volume)
Don't overbeat, just peak mixture
Fold in vinegar, cornflour and vanilla

Mum's Jiffy Fruit Cake

Mum used to make this several times a year.

Ingredients

1 pound packet of mixed fruit
1 cup cold water
1 tsp soda
1 cup sugar
6 ounces butter
1 tsp mixed spice

Place all ingredients in pot and bring to boil.  Simmer for 10 minutes.
Cool.

Add 2 beaten eggs
Mix in (sifted):
1 cup plain flour
1 cup self raising flour
salt vanilla

Add spoon brandy or rum (underlined in the original)

Moderate oven 1 hour.  9 inch tin.

170 -> 150 fan forced

Mum's Christmas Cake

This is the Christmas Cake Mum used to make every year.

1 kg Christmas Cake

3 12 oz packets mixed fruit (boxes are now 375 g)
1/4 cup sherry
3 Tbs orange juice

Mix well and stand overnight

Cream:

8 ounces butter (225 g)
8 ounces dark brown sugar (225 g)
few drops almond essence
1/2 cup mashed banana


Add 4 eggs (one at a time then mix)

Fold in the fruit

then:

2 3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp bicarb soda
1 tsp spice
pinch salt

Use 8 inch round or square cake tin lined with 3 thicknesses of brown paper and one of white (???) (20 cm - and I think now we'd use baking paper)

Drop cake in tin (after filled) to remove air bubbles

Glaze smooth with hand wet with water.  Can cover cake with paper.

Bake 3 to 4 hours in very moderate oven, decreasing heat.

My Mum's Rum Balls

Rosie made cocoa balls today and it reminded me of Mum's rum balls (which were nicer but very similar).  So I thought I put the recipes I remember Mum making her on my blog.

This is the rum ball recipe that Mum used to use for school fetes and other "bring a plate" ocassions.


Mum's Rum Balls

Ingredients

1 tin condensed milk
1 packet Nice Biscuits (crushed)
3/4 cup coconut (extra for rolling in)
1/2 cup mixed fruit
4, 20ml pp cocoa
3 teapsoons rum

Method

Combine all dry ingredients then mix with condensed milk and rum.  Roll into small balls and roll in cocoanut.
Refrigerate.

Yoga 260 linux - trackpoint/trackpad issues psmouse

The "mouse" buttons on the yoga 260 are not registered fairly regularly - particularly middle click - it often takes several clicks to open a new tab for example.  The cursor will jump from an inch or two when the button is clicked.

dmesg | grep psmouse
[    1.967548] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x4d1f04)
[    1.980573] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x80, 0x14, 0x0c.
[    1.994395] psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 04, 01, 85
[  209.233037] psmouse serio1: elantech: PS/2 packet [64 80 80 36 00 00]
[  209.360528] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  209.368585] psmouse serio1: elantech: PS/2 packet [0c 31 f4 56 54 1a]
[  209.368593] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynced.
[  209.375853] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  209.383980] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  209.392074] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  209.400410] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  209.409071] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  209.409079] psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request
[  232.070354] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  232.180747] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  232.210626] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  232.289699] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  232.428175] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[  232.428182] psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request

And then sometimes the cursor disappears and to get it back you have to (with root permissions) run 

rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse

This report https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115421 has a good description of the problem.

When I look at the different reports - they all start the same but seem to fizzle out except this redhat bug where it looks like someone is working on the elan_i2c module:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313939

Ran
rmmod elan_i2c
rmmod psmouse

lost cursor

modprobe elan_i2c
modprobe psmouse

Got cursor back.
Now have:

[ 2491.362187] input: ETPS/2 Elantech TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input703
[ 2491.377156] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input702

Looked really hopeful - but now the messages are back - but my middle clicking seems not to be ignored. and there are only three lots of lost sync messages.

Yoga 260 - debian thinkpad_ec errors - fixed

I installed tp-smapi-dkms at some point while I was trying to get my yoga 260 working with all its features.

I noticed these messages from dmesg after a reboot.

[   10.557939] thinkpad_ec: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[   10.558304] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec_request_row: arg0 rejected: (0x01:0x00)->0x00
[   10.558305] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec_read_row: failed requesting row: (0x01:0x00)->0xfffffffb
[   10.558307] thinkpad_ec: initial ec test failed
[   10.639393] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec_request_row: arg0 rejected: (0x01:0x00)->0x00
[   10.639394] thinkpad_ec: thinkpad_ec_read_row: failed requesting row: (0x01:0x00)->0xfffffffb
[   10.639397] thinkpad_ec: initial ec test failed

Googling I found this thread from https://github.com/evgeni/tp_smapi/issues/14 that started in 2012 and continued to 2015.

The gist seems to be that I should remove tp-smapi-dkms because those features are not supported by the hardware.

Ran

apt-get purge tp-smapi-dkms

And on reboot the messages have gone away:

 dmesg | grep think
[    2.661884] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.25
[    2.661885] thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
[    2.661886] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS N1GET70W (1.49 ), EC unknown
[    2.661886] thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 260, model 20FDCTO1WW
[    2.671689] thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
[    2.671850] thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver
[    2.671850] thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default...
[    2.675346] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked
[    2.678097] thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one
[    2.681189] input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input7

Linux Touch Screen Games

Games I know work with my yoga 260 touch screen on debian stretch

numpty physics - a bit awkward  for refresh because you have to side swipe  - http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org/

aisle riot solitaire - https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Aisleriot?action=show&redirect=Aisleriot

Chess - the one installed on debian


Five or More

Four in a row

hitori

iagno

klotski
lights off
mahjong
mines - ok except you can't right click with your finger

sudoku
swell foop
tarquin
tetravex


robots - I'm not sure I was playing it right

Doesn't work

gplanarity
nibbles - keyboard controls
quadrapassel

Thinkpad Yoga 260 and Debian Linux

I got a yoga 260 and I'm running linux on it.  It still has some teething problems but here's what I know so far.  It has a touchscreen.

The best linux status information for the yoga 260 is at the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_Thinkpad_Yoga_260

I'm running Debian Stretch - which is currently "testing".  It has Gnome 3.


When you login you can select if you use Xserver or Wayland.

Web browsing

I use Chrome.  With Xserver, I can only scroll by using two fingers  on the page or using a the scroll bar and no other gestures work.

Last night I discovered that with Wayland, I can scroll using a single finger, make the page bigger by "unpinching" two fingers and go back to a previous page by swiping from left to write - like your swiping the current page away.

Chrome has several virtual keyboards available as extensions.  The first one I tried which had the most comments didn't work for me - it wouldn't bring up a keyboard in the search bar.  I'm currently using "Keyboard" from http://www.123easywebsites.com/ and it's working ok.

There is a Gnome Shell Integration extensions.  If you add that then you can install gnome instructions through Chrome at the click of a button.  It puts a little gnome footprint in your tool bar.

Gnome

Gnome extensions can be installed through the Chrome extension mentioned above by going to https://extensions.gnome.org/.

Caffeine - disables the screensaver and autosuspend - installed after trying to use my "tablet" as a recipe book - it's really annoying trying to enter a password with floury fingers.

On Screen Keyboard Button - to get an on screen keyboard you have to enable it all the time. (well that's what I've worked out so far).  This extensions puts a little a in your gnome toolbar so you can turn it off.

Dash to Dock - puts a dock hidden to one side of your screen - handy for switching apps in tablet mode.

Netspeed - reports netspeed - nothing to do with tablets but it's cool

This article has a good list:

http://aptgadget.com/best-gnome-shell-extensions/


Kernel

Currently running 4.9 installed from source following these excellent instructions:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-building-installing-a-custom-linux-kernel/

This gave me two buttons on my pen and I think the multitouch behaviour in touch screen mode became better.  The impression I have is that the touch screen behaviour became much more precise, less sluggish but I could be wrong - maybe it was always that good and I was just getting used to it.

Trackpoint -
I turned the trackpad off because it's annoying.  With or without it the cursor keeps freezing with:

[30922.323665] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 6
[30922.323671] psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request

And the way to get it back is in a terminal with root permissions to run:

rmmod psmouse; modprobe -a psmouse

Which works but is annoying.  

Middle click keeps being ignored and the pointer jumps.  That's also annoying.

Tablet Mode works ok - but there is no screen rotation.  Locks the keyboard automatically.  

Screen rotation does't work because 

monitor-sensor
    Waiting for iio-sensor-proxy to appear
+++ iio-sensor-proxy appeared
=== Has accelerometer (orientation: undefined)
=== Has ambient light sensor (value: 0.000000, unit: lux)

4.9 has fixed that for others so I need to investigate further.

That's some rough notes - but I haven't found that information in one spot so I'll publish it rough though it is just in case it helps someone else.

Preschool Sewing

Today I'm going to Kindy B to do some sewing.  I made an electrical conduit and ebay connector version of the sewing table I saw at the  Kleas Blog

I like the Bayeux Tapestry - lots of boats and people

It's very long and tells the story of William the Conquerer-