Twice a year, the whole company takes off to some countryside hotel for a weekend of meditation about our mission. It is usually two days starting with incredibly boring discussions and ending in half a day of outdoors activity, only the latter being a lot of fun. This time, we are at Kawaguchiko, a lake at the base of Mount Fuji. The place is a Japanese-style hotel and offers great food, a nice public bath, and over-priced vending machines. Since Cissy is still in Shanghai, I do not much mind spending the weekend like this, especially since this time I brought my iBook along (including Air-H-Internet) and can happily code away while everyone else gets completely wasted (drunken Japanese businessmen are a rather ugly sight).