Rant #2,459: Change Is Gonna Come

We are smack dab in the middle of the most holy time on the Jewish calendar, the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

This is a time to reassess things in your life, and to make your life better.

These things don't have to be major things, just items on your personal laundry list that need to be cleaned up a bit.

Well, my family and I have done just that, and hopefully, it will be the better for all of us.

And talk about minor things ... at least at my end of the equation, we are talking about the most minor of the minor.

Let's start off talking about that.

I run a few Facebook groups, two of them having to do with my old neighborhood, one having to do with my hobby (record collecting), and then I have another one related to an old TV show that was both very influential and one that I actually liked.

The show is "Where the Action Is," the daily show from the mid-1960s that featured the top recording acts of the day, everyone from the Association to the Who (but not the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or the Dave Clark Five).

It is very influential as sort of the first MTV, and certainly the forerunner of "The Monkees" TV series.

Anyway, I had had this site devoted to the show for about the past five years, but I was never comfortable with it.

It was monetized, which meant that it revolved around selling a product, but I was not selling a product here, I was honoring a show. For some reason, when I created the site, Facebook only gave me that option, I took it, and I was stuck with a site that did not fit what I wanted to do.

I struggled with the site, but people liked it anyway, and I did receive thousands of likes of the site.

But it simply never fit my vision of what I wanted to do, or how I wanted to honor the old show that many Baby Boomers fondly remember.

Finally, this week, I decided that enough was enough, and I began the process of dissolving the site, which I soon learned, wasn't as easy as pushing a button and seeing it disappear.

When I finally figured out how to do it--it is a process that actually takes two weeks, so the site is still up and waiting to go away--I still wanted to honor that old TV show, so I designed another site, called "Where the Action Is--Yesterday and Today," that I was happy to see fit the parameters of what I wanted to do to honor the show in the first place.

And it has really taken off.

In two days of existence, it already has more than 50 members, and the discussions have been good ones. I have put up some content--including some things I previously wrote here about the show--and it isn't out of the realm of possibility that the site will have over 100 members by the time the weekend comes and goes.

If you are interested in at least seeing what the site is all about, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/598790963991601/. The site is really shaping up, and now, I finally have the site I always wanted to have related to this niche topic.

The more important change has to do with my son, who finally agreed to join a basketball league related to his bowling league.

For years, my son resisted in doing this, but he finally relented. I asked him why, and he just said he feels like doing this now.

He is a special needs adult, and any chance that he has to socialize with other people his age is always welcome. Throw in some athletics, and it sounds like a perfect fit for him.

The league, like the bowling league, is designed for special needs adults, and like the bowling league, it is highly competitive. The league plays in a facility somewhat near us, and my son will at least recognize many of his fellow participants, because they are in the bowling league too.

We are going to check it out tonight, and it should be, I hope, a good experience for him.

For me, that is the main thing, although it complicates my schedule a bit further.

But if it works for him, it is a pleasure for me, so I am more than happy to oblige.

So change is good, even in the minimum and maximum amounts I just described to you.

And I would be remiss if I did not mention that the New York Yankees will face the Minnesota Twins in the MLB playoffs tonight, and for a change, I believe that the Yankees will be not only be triumphant in this series, but they are going to win it all this year.

They have not done it since 2009, and 10 years is too long to wait, so it is now time to do it, and tonight is the first step in that direction.

Go Yankees!

I will speak to you again on Monday. Have a great weekend.