> the capacitors, filter out noise correct?  Where else do you
> need to do this?

Two things I always do - (1) on the underside of the board a 10n
ceramic and a 47u electrolytic across the Vdd and Vss pins and
(2) connect the crystal case to Vss. This fixed strange behaviour
in at least two circuits

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