Curling

Getting warmer. I submitted my tax report today. Strange association, tax with spring, in my brain. Only once a year in the spring but repeating it for 6 years finally made me used to filling out the tax papers, it seems. It was easy this year. The good thing about the current residence is that the tax office is within 3 minutes' walk.
The Japan curling team lost (to the Swiss). It's not hard to imagine that throwing a stone straight or in a curved line to hit opponent's stones or to place it precisely where the thrower wants requires mental strength beyond our thought. It's surprising the sport is rather new as world competition. I knew for the first time it made debut as a medal sport in the Nagano Olympics. A delicate mixture of luck, skill and mental strength decides a game... like our lives... if we plus money to them.