Studying.

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Not just Japanese this time.  Nor did I complete the flash cards.  It takes some time to do each one.  Practice, of several sorts... first with a ball point pen, then a few practice writings with the ink brush.  Then to write the character, go on to several others.  And, finally, to complete the card with Romaji on the reverse, as well as a description for pronunciation, as "to" - "as in "to" from "tore", but shorter"".  Making sure the character is dry, so it doesn't smear when writing filling out the obverse.

I made it through two lessons, which is about the pace I can go, before failing.  I have two more lessons left to finish standard hiragana.  Then I have irregular hiragana, but haven't gone over that yet.  This week I will be starting that, Monday.  I may attempt flashcards for those as I go through them.  As the characters are the same, merely adding something similar to quotation marks, or a degree mark, or such, to previously learned characters... which should be all already in flashcard form, so already practiced.

After that, I tried to begin studies on the slide rule I purchased... a few years ago.  With the manual for them.  Something is wrong.  The instructions, so far, are yielding no readable, sensible, results.  I will be looking on youtube, to see what is wrong.  The book is a reprint from a book originally printed in 1942 or so, with two revisions, and this a final simple reprint in 1962.  And the slide rule is a made in America, authentic, metal slide rule.  Everything seems to check, but they aren't hooking up correctly, or I am doing something wrong... if I have tried as many options as possible.  That I can see to try.  Headache got worse with that.  Will check youtube, see if it has anything, or even the general web.  Yt seems to have crashed and burned anything useful.  Though, maybe it is hiding such somewhere.

Later.