Lonely night

Tonight, I plan on going out into town and grab myself some food and beer. I plan on spending a few hours out. Earlier in the day, I couldn't stop but feel how lonely it is living out here. I live in Wyoming and the only decent size town is an hour's drive. I have signed up activities through meetup.com and waiting until a week to go out and try to socialize. But as I plan on going out tonight on my own, I always think what is the point. Going out will not take away the loneliness. I am exactly going through what I have been going through before I met my wife. Trying not to isolate myself at home, trying to go out with the hope that something special will happen and change me forever. I do have friends, but most of them have a family of their own, some do not have the same work schedule as I do, and some don't really go out and drink for a personal reason. The only thing I can do, aside from waiting until the divorce is final, is to wait a year until my contract is up so I can leave the department and move back east to be close to my family. I have to deal with this for a year. It is like a lonesome prison that is within myself that I am living.