The Apple Pencil Pro

When I got my new iPad after I wore out my last one, I had to upgrade to the Apple Pencil Pro. Generally, I have been very happy with the pencil pro. Except for last night. My Apple Pencil Pro stopped working entirely. So I googled what could be wrong. I went through pages of incorrect information. I was in my settings for over an hour trying to fix it with my settings.. Even as good as I am with my iPad, I could not figure out the instructions. One step instructions even said the pencil was not compatible with my new iPad, which I thought, gee, this is really odd, because it’s been working up until this point.

After about an hour, I stumbled upon a random page that it very simple. Unlike the previous Apple pencils, the Apple pencil pro has a screw on cap covering the point that you write with. Well, apparently even if you screw the cap on correctly, the cap can come loose. When the cap loosens by itself,  the pencil stops working. Now here’s the tricky part: you can’t screw the cap on too tightly or you’ll break the pencil. And you can’t have the cap on where it’s not tight enough or the pencil doesn’t work. So I have two pictures of the pencils below: one with the cap in the position where it wasn’t working. And one is how it should look. Now you all know I’m a fiber artist and I am not going to explain this in technical terms, but let’s just say a 16th of an inch here makes a huge difference. In whether your pencil will work or not. I hope this blog gets a lot of action because I’d like this blog post to be up near the top so people have a simple explanation on how to get their pencil working again. This way you won’t lose an hour of your life trying to figure out what you did wrong and why your pencils not working. Or the other thought, do I need to go to the Apple Store to have my new pencil fixed, the answer to that one is no. This gives you more time to do what you need to do or to play with your fiber or your other art medium. 

My personal wish is for the Apple Corporation redesign the pencil tip so it does not unscrew so easily. Perhaps giving the product to a mechanical engineer might yield a better design in which the pencil tip would be a little more stable and resilient.  

Please be aware that the Apple Pencil Pro is a registered trademark of the Apple Corporation. My husband bought my Apple Pencil Pro and Apple M4 iPad Air for me. This is my personal research into how to fix the Apple Pencil Pro without going through pages and pages of nonsense. By nonsense, I mean going into the settings, uninstalling and reinstalling the pencil. Going into the settings and to find and flip switches. I am receiving no compensation from the Apple company for this blog post. The content and opinions are entirely my own. 

I Am Really Trying to go Slow

 Today was a pretty laid back day. I took time to do self care and a short trip to the grocery store.  I only made one mistake at the grocery store. I purchased pre cooked dark meat turkey that looked very tender and smelled wonderful.  The on.y problem with the turkey is that it had enough salt to qualify as a salt lick for farm animals.  I stopped at five bites.  I figured that those 5 bites had over a week’s worth of salt for me.  There is absolutely no excuse to use that much salt in anything but brine.  

After my morning activity and lunch my body required a three hour nap.  I was honestly so tired that I don’t remember my head hitting the pillow.. my dear husband woke me up for dinner.  Unfortunately what I brought was not worth eating.  To compensate for not eating much dinner I had oatmeal and a banana before bed.  

I am trying to finish projects this week, so I pulled out a Tunisian crochet scarf made with fingering weight yarn.  I managed to crochet about four inches.  This scarf will be my television crocheting until it is finished.  Then I will work on the next item in that project bag until the bag is empty.  

It’s getting late so TTFN.  

A Change Up for Me

 Today I made a decision to put off more complex knitting or crochet projects until after my stitches are out.  This has not been an easy recovery for me.  I can also clear out a lot of UFO’s. This will result in the greater possibility of bringing more hats and scarves over to the Flowing Wells School District Clothing Bank before the holidays. 

I am keeping the patterns simple so the two scarfs in progress are going fairly quickly.  As soon as I finish the couch scarf, I am going to try to get a few more hats knit up.  Think of this as me being in slow production mode. More completed projects, however, not enough to hurt my hands. 

It has been a long day so TTFN.  

A Book Series Recommendation and more.

 We have had super crazy winds here in Tucson the last couple days. The winds were so bad last night that the whole house was rattling. I was afraid to go to sleep because the gusts were over 60 miles an hour. I’m not sure how much that has to do with climate change or if it’s an El Nino phenomenon. The air was so thick with dust yesterday that we could not see the mountains around our house. Some of those mountains were only 2 miles away. Forget about seeing anything in the valley. Now that the wind has stopped, it looks like rain clouds are coming in.

It’s a good day to stay inside to craft and clean. I am Almost finished reading book number 31 in the Bobbi Holmes series Haunting Danielle, mystery series. Bobbi Holmes is also know as Anna J McIntyer..  Since I am so far into the series of books, I would like to recommend this series of books. Truth be told, this is the series books I listen to while I’m knitting. or crocheting. Since I am feeling better being on the right medicine, I have been listening to the books faster again. I don’t know how many books are left of the series, but it’s one of those that, even if there were 100 books in the series, I would read every one of them. 

Now that I’m done with my 5 to 10 minutes of cleaning a day. It is time to kick off my shoes, put my feet up on my mushroom footstool, that doubles as warp storage for weaving supplies. Would you expect anything less from me? My current project for this particular knitting space involves what was once a 3 pound cone of cotton yarn. I am still making scarves from that 3 pound cone of yarn and I am at the beginning of the second year of working with the yarn. All the scarves are going to the Flowing Wells School district clothing bank.  I’m just using up different color yarns that go with the cone on yarn.  In the pattern that I want to do at the moment.  

TTFN

Almost Finished

 I have less than a dozen rows of Mosaic Tunisian Crochet left before I finish my cowl tom.  I am hoping not to play yarn chicken, however, my main color is looking very slim at the moment.  I promise pictures when I am finished tomorrow.  

This and That

 I finally found my rhythm, for the mosaic cowl that I talked about yesterday. It is going so much faster and looking so much better now that I found my rhythm. Hopefully I can finish that tomorrow and start my sheep and treat, area 51 hat for Halloween.

Recovery from the dental surgery is still driving me nuts. It’s still draining my energy too. Hopefully this too shall pass. I really hope the follow-up surgery for this tooth will not be as bad.

I’m really not liking the mashed diet. for the surgery follow-up for the next 3 to 4 weeks. The only thing it’s good for is losing between 1 pound and a half a pound a day. I did find one new food to add today that is low on the glycemic index, the Korean glass noodles. Made with yam starch. They are not very flavorful plain, but they are filling. Which is more than I can say for most of the mashed diet. If you’re wondering about the mashed diet, just think of putting graham crackers in a bowl of applesauce and mashing them till all you have is a paste, and you get to eat the paste, no texture, just paste. Soup is put through the blender until you can drink it with a straw, except that I can’t use a straw because of the stitches. You can see why find this diet so boring. If you have any good mashed food recipes, I’d be interested. I have already pulverized chicken to death, vegetables, I’m eating two bowls of oatmeal a day, and of course there’s the yogurt. 

In other news, It was bound to happen someday. Today was the day I burned my very first pan. Because of the dental surgery and the swelling, I’ve lost my sense of smell and couldn’t smell the pan was burning. Oops. Well, tomorrow I go get a new fry pan. Apparently when you have surgery on back molars, you lose your sense of smell, I wish somebody would’ve told me that in advance..

Well, it’s getting late. So I guess it’s TTFN time.  

The Gentle Current Cowl

 I finally made it to row 63 in the Aklori Design, Gentle Current Cowl. I only have to make it to row 83 before I can cast off. That is only 20 more rows.  What I initially thought was a mistake, is actually part of the pattern.  I am on the second row of mosaic, Tunisian crochet. It is fairly easy.  This gives me the confidence and courage to try to finish another mosaic design by Aklori Designs.  

Since I am at the beginning of row 63 I might pull back a few stitches to get the stitch right from the beginning of the row.   

I bought this pattern as a kit.  If I were choosing the yarn I would choose a lighter contrasting color to make it easier to see what I am doing during the mosaic Tunisian crochet .  The Ott light is helpful, but not as helpful as I would like.  This dark color requires daylight and the ott light combined.