Depressed with my situation, later 50s

Bloody car has an engine light on - gvme a fkg break. l know it's not serious and can still be driven for this one - so AI reckons he knows what it is bc of the number but it's all serviced and very loved so hopefully it's right and not much at all. Was 300k k trip home when it's been living in the city , plus about 200k since, shook a little something up. l could fix it myself if l want from the sounds but l'll take it to someone, bit of a shyt though. It's ok to drive don't wanna go far though now until it's fixed just encase.

Prob something simple @mrmista But yeah . Best get it checked

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Yeah hope so mate jesus, Only have AI to ask bc trying to get a mechanic round here's like winning lotto. Nearest one's 30k away and only works a few days a wk. Prob nothing but with bloody cars these days never know wth do ya. lt's only an 012 not going newer than that from here , better off with something like your trusty com man, the tech in them especially newer than mine now is mad, even in this one.

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Spose you've got the batcave car park to help with anonymity a bit there. in a way having no shops here sort of helps a bit in those ways, l reckon you've really gotta be a small town type to cope with using shops in them if they do have. l've swapped post offices from here over to another town 20k over, nice little place actually too. But all we do have is the post office here don't think l'll ever be comfortable using that thing though there's usually a wait and 5 or 10 locals out front talking and inside.Unfortunately l hate that thing yeah, using the other one now's been great. Got a few good shops there and bakeries too so l can wander in and out and no one knows wth l am, like that.

let RAC be your friend @mrmista cant be in the country without it

one nullabor trip staked a tyre without realising it, went on track to look at bight, were exposed roots

so basically got 2flats in a row memory bit blurry . sat on side of road waiting for good enough car to hail down as no phone near wirrulla. was 30ks west of wudinna when ran last tyre went ok cos spare not checked in years was stuffed plus flat

anyway , local bank manager dropped me at tyre place, they finished what doing drove 30ks to get tyres, 30ks back, fitted tyres to rims, drove 30ks to car, put tyres on then they had to drive 30ks back so like 120ks and just paid full price for 2 tyres not sure got charged anything else.

Yeah good idea mate, daughter talked me into the old rac when l was caravanning so got it on the other car might swap it over. Anyway good news is found an old school mechanic on the way up to the main town today. Wanders out with his tester fiddles with a few things, boom no more light. Took about 2mins. Don't like all these flashing bloody engine codes ran by silly computers they put out on cars now, way overdo.

Anyway mate there's one local for you anyway, good one. Gonna givem a chance here some seem pretty good actually though l know the gossip will fly with others. very nice over in that other little town.

Only been across the nullabor once, back packing when l was 19, whata laugh that was classic trip, whole bunch of us miss fits all wound up in the guys car that picked me up - nother story.

Have a good one.

..Not seen you in a while @mrmista ?hope all okay

went back to work last week had own class first time and for assessment.

I lost office key and let it spoil my weekend. it was where I thought. I was carrying something and put it down. was in student accom with ordinary food, no a/c and chance of up to 6peeps dropping in at any time and me sharing loo and shower with 2 others yay . too old for that . gave rundown on it when asked.in motel this week, looks pretty reasonable as well lol. still not paid, can see signs things happening , missed pay period think. also on higher rate than though ha ha, but that changes next week when go from casual to contract. Hope you and the car okay

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Morng mate, all sounds good anyway mate, don't mind the old motels accommodation stop overs- but that sounds a bit more like it then. Bloody keys yeah, was just asking my d other day if there's some gadget you can attach to keys, a bipper or something. Jobs sounding good anyway mate , glad it's going well, the money shell out must be hurting by now but eh you'll get a nice lump then when they finally sort it eh. Thx mate anyway yeah cars really nice, trying to hock off the old one atm now and just going on with the other stuff have happening here.

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gday there man, how's work and things been going there, been paid yet, how's it feeling being back at work ? hope the motelling's been comfy and all your travels to and frow doing ok.

must feel weird being away and coming home how's that been feeling , especially the getting home ?

anyway, been building the extension here a few mths now and upto the sheeting on the outside stage. dunno hth l'm feeling about it all and staying, still up and down a lot.frickin trouble with a crackpot neighbour he's house is up on main st but it's an ac and the back runs onto my st, well the mad bastard s dumping old cars and truckloads of tree branches right opposite my gateway, across road, mad bastard. council are onto him l've been trying to get him to clean it up, bloody nightmare.

anyway, trying to go on with things and see how l'm feeling when l've finished.

Yeah true.

• Getting used to motel and traffic plus 4 day week
• Prob here another month at least keep at it with house. Best stay away from neighbours?

Getting used to it. Big learning curve

On boarding hopeless

All word of mouth, some don't know or can't explain. Still got questions. Bosses always away at conferences

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