poking around trying to figure out where this makeAThing button bug is coming from
moved the convert-to-tablet-layout functions to the view object
Think I fixed bug.  added code to makeThingButtonHandler to add a click event to the new thing's back button.  also added code to addGridSquare that will add mobileSelectButtonHandler to all .thing elements.  not sure if it's the best solution but it seems to work
added commands in open/close drawer funcs to hide/show #select.  might eliminate scrollbar problem in mobile...
still for scrollbar problem.  now hiding parent of #select instead, and passed hide command in openDrawer as a callback for $.animate so it will wait til animation is done to hide