11/3 & 11/5: Narrating and Shopping

Good morning. I made a mistake.
I was writing yesterday's diary as 11/3, but I realized I had actually written about the 4th. That's a strange story. So, what should I do? I'll edit the entry for yesterday to be 11/4.

Today, I think I'll write about 11/3 and 11/5. Since neither day had any leisure time, it should be just right.

11/3
Today started with the Manzai Daikoushin. My turn was at 13:10. If you call that a strange time, that would be weird, but usually, it's 12:50, 14:50, or around there. No, if you think 13:10 is also around there, you still don't know the common sense of Asakusa. This 20-minute difference is a big deal. I've never heard the actual rules for this schedule, but the first few acts of the first and second parts of the show are handled by young performers, then the mid-level performers go out, and finally, the undeniable popular stars take the stage. We sometimes end up in the second half due to the management's difficult decisions when we are filling in for others. However, today's time was set at this slot when the lineup was announced in the middle of last month. It's finally here. It means we are moving up in the world.

Well, that's not really the case. I'll just do my manzai as usual. There's nothing to change. I went out after Norinori Mori and it was one roar of laughter after another. We collected all the laughter in the venue. Man, that's too bad. Lies! You big liar!

I went home and took a nap for about an hour. When I woke up, I got ready, jumped on the train, and headed to Shibuya. At this time of year, yes. That job that colors the professional baseball off-season. It's the narration for Kyujien. I think this is my third season doing it.
If you're a fan of the show, you might think, "Wait? Isn't Tsuchiya-san from Knights the one doing the narration? Does this guy have a habit of lying?" That's not it.
My voice doesn't go out to the public. Basically, I talk a lot to create footage that is longer than what's on air (probably). Tsuchiya-san, former pro baseball players, and baseball-loving celebrities watch that footage, make various comments, and after editing, Tsuchiya-san finally does the narration with that wonderful voice of his, and the program is completed. In that flow, I am allowed to be involved in that popular program. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Since I'm usually drinking alcohol when the broadcast starts, I haven't been able to calmly watch the final staff roll, but I wonder if my name is listed there. I guess it's probably not. I'd be happy if it were.

This season starts broadcasting on 11/16. Everyone, be sure to check it out.
If this program gets high ratings and continues forever, I'll keep getting work. By the way, I do this job thinking that I'm getting back the broadcast fees I paid. The relationship with the authorities could be called a win-win.

I had been trying not to mention the program name, but since it started again this year, I decided to reveal it just this once. I hope you'll forgive me, as I have no ill intent and just want to increase the number of viewers even a little.

When the narration recording was over, I took a little walk around Shibuya before heading home. I rarely go to Shibuya, so I wandered around the night streets, wondering what lies beyond those shadows. That town has a very chaotic, messy image where everything is jumbled together, but once you step inside, you see places that look like clean, indirect-lit bars, or whatever they are, where white and black people are chatting and smiling. I, a yellow person, watch that. It's an interesting town.

11/5
Today's schedule is just a part-time job starting at 17:45.
I'll be returning home soon for a wedding. But since the food in my house is getting quite limited, I have to go shopping.
I've been slacking off on shopping lately. My shopping style is to go to a wholesale supermarket about once a week and buy as much food as I can fit in my fridge and freezer. Mostly frozen vegetables, chicken, natto, fried tofu, and seasonings that are running low. I buy these things.
Rice is expensive, so I haven't been able to buy it for a few months, so I buy cheap pasta, about 130 yen for 500g, as my staple food at the wholesale supermarket.

The wholesale supermarket is about a 7 or 8-minute ride on my scooter. At the local My Basket, I buy things to eat that day, like sweet buns or instant noodles, depending on my mood. My life is main shopping at the wholesale supermarket and bits and pieces at My Basket. How many years have I been repeating this?

And I had been slacking off on going to the wholesale supermarket. I went shopping in the afternoon. I really want to strongly recommend the wholesale supermarket to everyone. When I recommend it, most people respond with wild opinions like, "You get what you pay for, right?" or "For someone living alone, it's cheaper to just buy prepared meals, isn't it?"
To those people, I say, "Get out of here!"

I sometimes hear the "it's cheaper to buy prepared meals" crowd. It's true that if you try to make something as delicious as a supermarket's prepared meal, considering the effort, the prepared meal might be cheaper. But are you such an important person that you have to eat such delicious food every day? There are days when you just get by with udon, soy sauce, and a raw egg, right? You can just get those things at the wholesale supermarket.
Regarding "you get what you pay for," I want to say something. It is true that there are things at the wholesale supermarket that aren't delicious. However, having dealt with the wholesale supermarket for a long time, the things that aren't delicious there basically have the problem of "lacking umami." If it lacks umami, you can try heating it with meat or fish, easily add umami with mentsuyu or white dashi, or heat it with dashi stock. Don't think you can buy something cheap and make it delicious immediately without even trying these things. I've been the head chef of my own home for a long time, so I want to clear up these misunderstandings about the wholesale supermarket quickly.

Buying something cheap and just heating it up to make it delicious. That's an ideal, but the wholesale supermarket sells things at extraordinary prices. You should face the wholesale supermarket with the awareness of a professional, that is, a wholesale professional.
In this day and age, whether you're a man or a woman, it's become an era where you have to earn your own money and do your own cooking, laundry, and cleaning. The wholesale supermarket is helping us. Please don't speak too ill of it.
If you want, I'll go to your house and cook a lot of dishes using wholesale supermarket ingredients. I'm confident they'll be super delicious. I'll teach you how to deal with the wholesale supermarket.

I finished by working my part-time job at night. I'm tired.

I'm sleepy! I got very sleepy, so I'm going to sleep.

What I thought was interesting today is: "When the wholesale supermarket disappears from this world, I will probably leave this world too. There are less than two months left this year. One more push."