I think I speak pretty clearly and don't use long words or anything like that.

Recently it has come to my attention that I have too much on my plate, so to speak. In doing an inventory of my extra-curricular activities, I was honest with myself and decided that I would drop the things that I'm currently doing that don't bring me 'joy'.

One of these that qualified was maintaining a website for a local mediator group (one that I haven't attended in at least a couple of years). Another was my homeowner's association board position. I've dropped them both. Before I could even resign the mediation position I got an email from the chapter president saying that she realized that I was soooo busy and that she had found someone to take my place.

Yay! I didn't have to quit! They had replaced me before I would even have the chance to let them down. Life was good.

So I met at a local Starbucks for the big handoff. I had my laptop, my thumb disk filled with files, and I was ready to hand the website over to this willing volunteer.

I knew I was in trouble when she asked me "What is this .html file extension on these files? What does that mean?" But she had done a family website using a site builder so I just encouraged her to go forward with the technology that she was familiar with. Life was still good, but getting worse.

Today, I get an email from her saying that they like the site that I did, they don't want to change anything, that she wants to know what application I used for developing the site (Dreamweaver..., not your totally user friendly app, for the novice) and when we could get together again for me to train her on this new tool.

Aaack!!!

So now I'm spending part of my time tonight composing in my head an email response to her that basically asks "what part of 'I don't have time' did you not understand?'"