Some searching will pay off alot here
There are several threads dedicated to this great little rock. Over the last 5 month, it's been my only finisher. It does better than I do. I found that using mostly circles before a few x-strokes was a faster way to get to the level of keenness desired.
Because of variations in the naturals, you may get a good (fast) one or slow. The slurry approach can speed it up.
I can get keen edges from the stone, but smoothness was elusive until I tried an experiment w/ crox. One side of my stone has the black tiger-striped inclusions mentioned in one of the threads. The other side lacks them entirely. On the side without the black stripes, I drew a cross-hatch pattern with the Crox crayon from SRD. The benefit of having the crox on the stone is that you avoid any issues with edge-trailing strokes making the edge fragile. It smoothed out the edge nicely. Anyway, something to try.
Best of luck w/ your new razor. Don't be a stranger here. I'm proof that even 'dumb' questions are treated kindly. Seriously, the help is outstanding, and the attitudes are also.