I’m Tired

17 Jalal 164 B.E. – Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I’m tired, but I’m not sleepy. Today I decided to post a list of 19 times to give away on Freecycle. These are things that have set around the house for a while that we no longer use. They’re still good, but we just don’t use them. There is no sense in keeping them when somebody else can get some good out of them. One of the things I put on the list was a book about walking in faith, not sure what the name of it is now (I’d have to go out to the garage and find out). I sent for it because the title intrigued me (and now I can’t remember the name of the title); it was a free book.

Anyway after I received it, I realized that everything about walking in faith I can find in the writings of Baha’u’llah, the Bab, and ‘Abdu’l-Baha. The book did have some poems in it, but they didn’t seem to interest me either. I’m not sure why the poems didn’t interest me, they were good poems, they talked about faith, but they didn’t seem to have any relevance to my life. This usually doesn’t bother me when I read poems, normally I just enjoy the poem without worrying about whether it has any relevance in my life or not.

Anyway, back to the reason I’m tired but not sleepy. I also put a laser printer on the list that’s been sitting by the fireplace for a while. I was going to connect it to my mother’s computer, but the printer was black and white. In addition, every time I want to get a print cartridge for it, I have to run all over Vegas. It’s not that I mind driving across town looking for something, I’ll drive anywhere to pick up something off freecycle. I drive from the east side of town to the west side to attend Feast and other functions at the Baha’i Center. I think it was just the idea of driving all over the city to get a cartridge for a printer that we might use once a month if that. Besides, I’m not at all sure that printer was compatible with my mother’s machine.

The printer was heavier than I remember it being. It could be I carried it farther this time. I wanted to get all that stuff out to the garage so it wouldn’t be difficult to find when someone comes after it and I didn’t want it setting in the entrance hall, if I left it there it would just be in the way every time I went in and out of the house. I still have more items to post on freecycle, but I think I’ll wait until I have at least 18 items on the list.