Author: Frank LaManna

Hello! My name is Francis Joseph LaManna, Author of Smorgasbord A Collection of Thoughts, Experiences, and Stories, Smorgasbord 2 Catch Up and Relish, and Administrator of https://noozbuffet.com. Nooz Buffet is my piece of the web, and I write about things I like, things I dislike, and things I think people should know about.

He and They

In the privacy of his own world, he played. He held on to his own little secrets, and he laughed at them. They amused him, and no matter what was going on around him, he knew he could always resort back to his inner world for peace and contentment.

Then one day, they realized they weren’t getting to him. They realized, no matter how much they pushed, and no matter how much they tried to annoy and aggravate, they just couldn’t get to him. They tried everything to. As a matter of fact, they went above and beyond. They even broke laws. It didn’t matter anymore, they were going to do whatever they had to do to invade his privacy.

He recognized this, and he thought about it. “Is the world around me that destructive,” he wondered. “Are the people around me that miserable with themselves they’re willing to break laws just to violate my privacy,” he asked himself.

Yes. The answer was yes. They were.

And he accepted this, and he put up no fight. He put up no resistance, and when they came rushing at him, he showed what he’d been hiding. It was a picture of himself from when he was a child, and they laughed with relief. Eventually, they left, and he sat there.

He sat there feeling violated. He was really upset, so upset he didn’t even want to look at himself anymore. His eyes welled with tears, and he cursed them all, and he wished a living death upon them-a curse so bad, they’d wish they were dead.

If you have to break the law to invade someone’s privacy, you lost. You’re a lesser man then he. Concede, and walk away.

Something Isn’t Right

“Thank you for applying with our company, but unfortunately, at this time we’ve decided to move forward in the interview process with candidates whose qualifications are a better fit for what we’re looking for.”

Okay, that’s fine. I understand that I’m not going to get every job I apply for on the internet, but how can this be the answer 99% of the time?

If I’m not qualified, then who is? What skills and qualifications do they have that I don’t? Sometimes, I’m so qualified for a position I’m applying to, that I wonder if the actual company even read my cover letter and resume. I feel like if they did, they definitely wouldn’t have passed up on me, but this seems to be the trend. I’ll apply to a company, and then, the next day I’ll go for a walk, and the companies vehicles are driving past me beeping the horn. Are you kidding me?

Do I apply to jobs to make other people feel good? Why am I always on the outside looking in? I don’t know, but I’m starting to think about something.

Monster, Career Builder, Indeed, Linked In, and so on, are all third party job placement “internet companies.” Who actually works at these companies, and where has my private and professional information been going the last seventeen years?

If a company turns you down from a job, then someone should contact you directly and tell you why. Not only that, they should wish you luck on your job search and offer some type of information or advice on how you can land your next job so your not applying to a thousand different places.

If you use any of these websites to find jobs, write in and let me know what you’ve been experiencing. I’d like to know if your experiences have been similar to mine, or different.

Have a wonderful day!

Cattitude

Why was the cat mad?  What was wrong with mad cat?  Finally, someone caught up with Don, and they asked him.  “What’s bothering you?”

I’m bitter.  I’m upset.  I f***in’ hate you because I knew what I was doing, and I knew what I wanted, but you made none of it available to me.  You deprived me for your personal amusement.  You gave me eyes to see, but when I needed them most, you turned the lights off.  You made me go the long way, even though I had a shortcut because you didn’t believe in shortcuts.

I learned lessons as a child, but you made me relearn them as an adult.  You wasted my time-my precious time, and the years passed by.  Those years, I’ll never get back.  I’ll never be that age again.  Like death, I was dead to the world.  I’m so angry because you took something from me you can never replace.  Time!  Now you have to tread lightly.

While I try to forgive, and while I’m trying to forget and move on, please stay away.  I’m mad cat, and I’m really mad.

“Donahue, it’s me, God.  Relax man. I got something planned for us. I’m going to take you to the French Quarter.”

The End

 

Amazing Coincidence!

Last night I reconnected with an old friend, and we talked on the phone for hours, almost until the sun came up. Finally, in a desperation attempt to salvage a few hours of sleep, I had to force myself off the phone. This morning when I woke up, I noticed a utility vehicle parked on my street.

What I found most interesting, was the license plate on this truck was from the same state as the girl who I just got off the phone with not even five hours ago. I still haven’t figured out yet if this is all just coincidence, or purposefully designed.

Think about this. You live in New Jersey, and you spend all night on the phone with someone from Idaho, then you wake up three hours later and there’s a truck from Idaho parked on your street pretty much in front of your house, and a man is doing underground utility work. Strange? You better believe it.

Anyway, I probably should at this point, give the company a little publicity.

USIC is an underground utility location and damage prevention company, and they’re located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Why their trucks have Texas license plates I do not know, but they are located in PA.

According to the man working on the street, “It’s a fleet thing.”

Okay, whatever that means.

I remember getting a ticket when I was driving in New Jersey with Pennsylvania license plates, but apparently it’s okay for certain companies to do it, and get away with it.

Um, no buddy, I think it’s an insurance thing, but I digress.

I actually wanted to interview the worker, and do an in depth story on USIC, but he said he needed permission to do that. I don’t know, apparently, workers at USIC have taken a vow of silence?

Whatever.

Alright everyone, have a good day!

NASA

Osiris REx is a NASA space mission that was launched on the eight day of September in 2016. Satellite Osiris, is supposed to visit NEO, near earth astroid, Benna, scoop up some space rocks, and return with a sample for observation and study. Osiris is due back to earth in 2023.

In case you didn’t know, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I didn’t know that. As a matter of fact, I thought it meant North American Spy Agency. Ah, who knew?

Outdated Books?

It was twelve years ago when someone bought me my first astrology book.  It was a Christmas gift, and I was so thankful.  Before the following year ended, I was hooked and totally interested in whatever this beautiful art had to offer.  As the years went and my studies grew more intense, an idea popped into my head.

I thought in order for me to learn astrology-like really learn astrology, I should probably buy books from the time when it was most widespread and popular.  Sometimes people hide information from you if they feel like you don’t need to know about it, but I wanted astrology in its rawest form.

The problem with the internet, or information on the internet, is that it can change right before your very eyes. Let’s take a site like Wikipedia for example, I love Wikipedia, but someone can go on there and change any details whenever they want.  Did you ever read something on the internet and then revisit the same article a year or two later only to find it changed or edited in some way?

Books, good old books will be around forever, and once they’re printed, they’re printed!  You can’t edit a paperback or a hardcover book, thus, the information in it, will remain as it was on the day it was published.

Why does this matter?  Well, besides for protecting your sanity, there was a statement someone made that everyone seemed to be in agreement with until recently;

“If we don’t remember our past, we’re doomed to repeat it.”

First statues, and now books.  Americans seem to be having a real problem with dealing with our past history.  React emotionally, destroy everything, and just throw it out-that’s the motto right now I guess, but burying our problems is archaic way of dealing with them.

My blog post is in response to an online article written by Madison Dapcevich, titled, “Did a Minnesota School Toss Library Books to Erase History?”

I don’t know the answer to that, and I don’t know if that was the case at all, however, I’m curious to know what the Media Specialist at Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear, Minnesota, meant by “weeding out-outdated books.”

Can a book ever be outdated?  Maybe I’m a little bias here because of my love for books, literature, and writing in general, but I think the answer to that question is no.

A book can never be outdated-so my next question is, “What books has the Media Specialist personally decided to throw out?”

Did a Minnesota School Toss Library Books to ‘Erase History’?

Have a wonderful evening!

Nooz Now

7/18/2020

Good evening.  It is Saturday, July 18th, 2020, and it’s a gorgeously warm summer night.  I hope you’re enjoying yourselves.

Nooz Now

📢 Civil rights leader and Georgia congressman, John Lewis, died last night.  Lewis, who has been suffering from Pancreatic cancer, died at age 80.

 ⛸ Olympic figure skater Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya died at age 20.

⚖ The Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is suing the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshal Service, U.S. Customs, and other federal agencies.  She’s looking to have a restraining order placed on several federal agencies to prevent them from coming into Portland and making illegal arrests.  According to Rosenblum, the citizens of Portland are protesting peacefully, but they’re being arrested, or in some cases, just taken off the street and placed in unmarked-undercover vehicles.

👑 According to online publication, Express, there has been an archaeological breakthrough.  In an article written by Charlie Bradley, Archaeologist discovered a 300-year old Spanish shipwreck.  It is believed the ship is holding treasures worth millions!

🏈 According to yahoo!sports, Trevor Lawrence, Clemson’s star QB has just announced his engagement to girlfriend Marissa Mowry.

🚑 In the Lehigh Valley yesterday, 4 people were severely injured in a car accident.  Eleven hours ago, WFMZ Allentown reported Route 22 West in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania had been closed Friday night after a 2007 Honda Accord hit a concrete divider.  Four people were in the car, and all of them were taken to the hospital.

In case you’re wondering, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown is now open.  Their hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and you can check their website for more details.

I love Dorney Park.  It’s definitely one of the summer highlights here in Allentown.  Yes, things are starting to feel normal again.

🌡It’s going to be 95 degrees and sunny tomorrow!  I can’t wait.

🌙 Tonight, the moon is in the astrological sign of Cancer.  It will be in Cancer until Monday, and then it will spend Tuesday and Wednesday in Leo.

🌞 The sun is also in Cancer.  Happy birthday to all you Cancers born in July.

Alright everyone, if no one said they loved you lately, please allow me.  I love you.  Have a wonderful evening.

💞💞