It's already been five months since the big loss at the beginning of the year.

COVID is becoming a thing of the past, and restrictions on overseas travel have been greatly relaxed.

Exactly one year ago during Golden Week, I had booked an overseas trip using award miles, but it was canceled due to COVID-19, so I was thinking of rebooking for Golden Week in 2023, when my middle daughter said she wanted to go overseas once, so I made a reservation for both of us.

I think I wrote this before, but my wife's birthday was during this Golden Week, and she glared at me coldly and said, "Take the whole family!", but I don't have the financial means to do so, so I said, "Well, this time it's just my second daughter..." "What will she do when you're at the casino? She's underage." "No no no. You can enter Korea from 19 years old." "What if I take her to a place like that and she becomes addicted to gambling like you!" "No no no, I'm just watching from the sidelines..." "You always stay up all night and play until the morning!" "I'll only do a little this time. Well, well, you can have something delicious with this." I gave her a bribe of 10,000 yen and somehow got her to agree. Usually, I go with friends to the casino or travel alone, so I don't do much sightseeing and I usually just eat casino food, but this is my daughter's first time abroad, so I decided to look up shops and restaurants in advance.・Let's see the play NANTA

・Let's buy the famous bread at Gwangjang Market

・Let's eat vegetable hotteok at Namdaemun

・Let's go to a Dakgalbi restaurant in Dongdaemun

・Let's eat yakiniku in Myeongdong

And since I can't go all-in on casinos, I have no choice but to gamble for a short period of time.

But without the essential war chest, I can't gamble for a short period of time.

Actually, I lost 400,000 yen in Korea last time, but then the futures of "natural gas" that I got into in hopes of a sudden turnaround crashed, deepening the wound even more...

I had no choice but to borrow the entire 350,000 yen from the "Macau savings" that I had been saving little by little every month for a trip to Macau with a friend, which had remained untouched due to COVID-19.

This time, I couldn't afford to lose, so I made a wish at a nearby shrine the evening before.

"Today's offering is small, but if I win, I'll definitely..."

Tomorrow morning I have an early flight, so I've filled up my tank with gas to head to the airport, and I've checked the tire pressure.

By 9 p.m., I've finished eating and taking a bath, and am going to bed to prepare for the next day.

Continued in part 0