New Year Calendars

     I've been about to cry uncle with the overwhelming amount of work lately!
     Anyway, the new year is just around the corner. A lot of calendars of the next year started to be delivered to my hospital from various companies related to medical services. I put some of them on the wall of my study and my office. I usually choose the calendars which have pictures of scenery.
     Japan is a small country, but it has many chains of mountains. Climbing is one of my hobbies and I sometimes feel relaxed to see mountains. The picture shows two of those calendars. The right one is from Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd:
http://www.kissei.co.jp/e_contents/from_ceo.htm This company is located in Nagano prefecture, where the Nagano Winter Olympics were held in 1998. Nagano prefecture is also noted for having the Japanese Alps.
     This company makes calendars with pictures of the mountains and distributes the calendar to their customers as a New Year's gift. I'm looking forward to seeing them every year.
     The left one is from a bar where I sometimes drop in. The owner of this bar loves car rallies and named his bar "Bar WRC". The WRC (World Rally Championship) will be held in Hokkaido in Japan next October and I'm going to join it as an official. I decided to use both in my office this year.

(Vocabulary)
cry uncle  降参したと言う、参ったと言う、敗北を認める
about ready to cry uncle 《be ～》早くもお手上げ状態である
mountain chain  山脈