Two tips while dinner was being prepared. Use a sieve or mesh strainer to disolve miso Miso can be difficult to fully dissolve as it will clump up and physical agitation only goes so far. Use Nameko Mushrooms to thicken soup - ナメコ I didn’t see them before they were cooked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholiota_microspora Instead of the watery broth, it was silky with a slightly higher viscosity.

A kindle could be reasonably used to take notes. The notes taken are available in the My Clippings.txt file under documents. The whole path from the root of the kindle filesystem is /documents/My Clippings.txt. A question remains in my mind of the behavior of the notes. Is it a log? Append-only? If I remove a book, do the notes go, or stay? If I re-download a book, do the notes become associated?

I keep relearning this, so I want to make it clear to myself. The general concept is to know whether it is a good idea to pay a lump sum now, or to pay installments over time. When there is a discount for paying now, what is the equivalent interest rate to paying over time. There are times where paying the lump sum, being a guaranteed return, is significant enough that it makes sense to pay now if possible rather than paying later.