i went camping with a ton of people this weekend at emerald bay in tahoe. we went on a hike to climb mt. tallac. it was a GRUELING 5 mile hike that has an elevation change of 3000 feet to the summit. a 10 mile hike is usually no sweat for me, but after i was done with this hike i was EXHAUSTED. as soon as i got back to the campground, i was so tired that i fell asleep. i didn’t bother to eat. after my short nap, i was awoken by the starving pangs of hunger and i had some food.

it was a lot of fun, though, and it was nice to be able to get away from the office for a while.

i’m going to japan this weekend for a little over a week. i’m doing some handset porting and code implementation with some japanese handsets. did you know that there appears to be only three cell phone providers in japan? i guess it’s a pretty small nation so you can’t have the dozens that you have here.

i don’t know how much time i will have outside of work to explore, though. the impression i get is that i’m going to be pretty busy. i hope that i’ll have some time to do some sight-seeing, but from what i hear it is incredibly hot and humid in japan right now.