Well this is my last night here at this old house. Tomorrow I sign the lease and get the keys to my new abode, and so I will be spending my first night there.
OK the saga so far...... Overheating problem with the car. It was towed back to the mechanics on Thursday night for Friday, and they could not emulate the overheating problem. In other words the overheating does not become obvious until you drive it into the ground, such as the previous day with two virtually country trips to my storage unit plus looking at apartments.
However they did suspect a circulation problem, and they thought the most likely culprit would be the radiator. However the car needed to be delivered to a specialist for cooling systems who would have the equipment to thoroughly test the system to figure out exactly where the circulation problem lies. Kinda like visiting the GP with a problem when then refers you onto a specialist, say a heart specialist, for deeper analysis and treatment. So with my permission the car was delivered to the specialist for free as part of my RAC membership. This would mean I would be without a car for the weekend, very NOT good considering I still have trailer loads of furniture to deliver to my storage unit!!!! However I figure they needed to get to the bottom of the problem.
Later that did they called and indeed it was the radiator!! So now the current situation is, I am without a car for this weekend while they install a new radiator, and I should get the car back Monday. And all I can say is, after spending a total of over $1000 for the thermostat, the system flush, and new radiator, it had better not overheat again otherwise I will scream!!!!!! I still have two trailer loads of furniture to deliver to storage!!!!!
As a consequence of being without a car and therefore unable to deliver my items into storage, I began the task of moving the rest of my items to the shed so that the house could be empty for the cleaning crew last Saturday. The two major items being the fridge and bed. The washing machine and dryer were loaded directly onto the trailer ready for the next trip to storage. The block of apartments has shared laundry facilities so I will no longer be needing my washing machine and dryer, so both are going into storage. This leaves mainly the bed and fridge with some smaller items all squeezed into the shed. The shed has a power outlet so I could still plug in the fridge and use it, though now it has only drinks and the Magnum icecream sticks. I am currently getting my meals from the convenience stores, just like when I am on my trips ;)
Then the cleaning crew came to the house on Saturday and ended up spending all day there while I was out and about on my bicycle. I first road to my new abode, well outside of the gated community which my unit is located anyway. I will be within a secure complex that needs a key code to get in. So from my new abode I rode on my intended route to work, and it is a little further, adding about 10 minutes to my journey, but much of it is along the river and nearly all of the journey is on cycleways with next to no interactions with traffic. So I will be just that little bit more fit due to the further distances I be riding. There is a shorter route also on cycleway to work, but it is away from the river, and it involves several road crossings controlled by traffic signals which during peak times you wait forever at. So it is shorter but longer waits at traffic signals. I may take that route on my way home to see exactly how shorter it is and how long it takes with the traffic lights. I do prefer riding by the river as the water is very healing, there is energy healing associated with water.
So I rode to my workplace from my new abode to gauge how far it is and how long it will take. Then from there I rode to the post office to collect my mail and found there was a parcel waiting for me. Fortunately the parcel pickup window is open on Saturday mornings, so I went to collect my parcel to find it is a huge package, it is part of my RC Race Car, and well it barely just fit across the back carrier on my bicycle. Well I didn't want to lug it around for the rest of the day, so I rode to the next train station, so I could catch the train and take the parcel to my storage unit. So I took the train down to Kwinana, and rode my bicycle to my storage unit, still a 30 minutes ride from the station but it sure beats riding my bicycle all the way from the city!!!!
Then I took the train back to a shopping mall not far from my old place. It was noon by then and wasn't really sure when the cleaners would be finished, but they would text me when they are close to finishing so I figure I had better stay within the vicinity of the house, well within 30 minutes ride anyway. I was getting low on energy by then due to all of that bicycle riding so needed some sustenance, so I bought a roll at a shop within the food hall and ate it there. Then I made my way back to the house and set up camp in the park nearby. I could see the house from the park and saw that the cleaners were still there.
So I went to another mall nearby, bought a soda and set up camp in one of the lounges they provided at the mall...... and then after a while, I decided I would ride to the coast which is about 20 minutes along a cycleway. And so after I arrived at the coast I set up camp on one of the bench seats overlooking the ocean. It was getting late in the day by then so figure the cleaners should be finished fairly soon.
And just as I was about to relax by the ocean, I received the text message, the cleaners would be finished within about 30 minutes. So I was on my way back. And I have to say I was pleased with the job. It really is worth paying someone to do all the cleaning, a lot less stressful for me, it certainly beats doing it all on my own and being stressed out and tired. I have enough stress with the car and still needing to transport items into storage before Wednesday when I am due to hand in the keys.
Today I was mostly in the garden, this I elected to do on my own since it was relative simple and I am good at it. Just lawn mowing, edging, a bit of weeding and cleaning the pavement. Nothing much to it with the equipment that I have. So took me no more than about three hours to do it all back and front. So now the house is clean and the garden is now done. The only thing left to do is repairing the damage to the walls left behind by the hospital when they install mobility devices for my wife. I have already filled in the holes in the wall and painted them over in two of the rooms. Due to a lack of car I hadn't gone to the hardware store to attempt to find the right paint for the bedroom. So if I get the car back early enough tomorrow that will be what I will do. Then hopefully this will complete the tasks that needed to be done on the house.
Tomorrow, Monday, I have the day off work. So the timing of my plans hinges on when I be able to lick up the car. What is required to be done is at least one trip to the storage unit to deliver my trailer load of furniture. Also need to visit the real estate office to sign the lease, being a 12 months lease, and collect my keys. Then setting up in my new abode.
What I have decided regarding the bed is to get a single bed. It is much easier to deal with than the double bed I currently have, and well its not like I be needing a double bed anytime soon or at all. I will be single for the rest of my life on this planet, I have no intention of getting into another relationship, there is a reason why I am called the Wandering Wolf. I am a lone wanderer, a nomad. Also the room at my new abode is not very big, perfect size for me but just not very big, so a single bed would be more viable than a double bed. So my current double bed will be taken into storage, and I will get a single bed after I return from Bali. Need to save my pennies for spending money in Bali. You know how it is on overseas trips, you never have enough money!!!! And I already spent too much on that infernal car. The cheaper rent, virtually half of what I am paying now, will help immensely. The air ticket and lodging are already paid for, so it's just spending money.
Meanwhile I am just pretending I am camping out on one of my trips and sleeping on my air bed. Here at my current abode I am now sleeping on my air bed, and so tomorrow night I will simply just take my air bed to my new abode and be sleeping on that until after my Bali trip.
The other task I need to do when I get into my new abode is to measure for the fridge, to figure out if it will fit into my new abode. My current fridge is a large fridge legacy of my wife who wanted a large fridge. Indeed it is so large it didn't even fit into the fridge space at this current house so it has always been located in the dinning area next to the kitchen. So my current abode being a small abode it may not fit in, indeed I may not be able to even get it into my apartment. The fridge barely fits through the front door at this house, and the doors to apartment tends to be more narrow. So I will have to check and measure before I can know if I could take the fridge into my apartment. If not, then the fridge will also be taken into storage and a new smaller fridge being added to my shopping list after the Bali trip. Until then I be just living how I live on my trips, getting my daily sustenance from convenience stores and the occasional fast food joint.
And so my nomadic adventures continues...........
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