The Trials and Tribulations of Triumph; The story of Knowledgeable Neil F. Clifford.
The story you are about to read is a Love Story of The United States of America; a story about my family, work and the people I have had the pleasure to meet. This story of unknowns, founded on a theme of Today is a building Day has many levels of frustrations, hopes and dreams to be told and treasured! The story will seem more than a shear comedy, or drama. This is the story of mystery, crime, non fiction, and horror in our day and age. There are no reasons to be apologetic in the text, and the main goal will be the tone with which this story can be told again and again and again for generations to come. This is the story about TNT, Tone Neil Tone. The tone this story will be told begins with the premise that all people are good people and each of us have an intrinsic relationship and connection. I dedicate this novel about myself to each and every one of us that does care about life on earth and the other living creatures here with us at this time and those who came before us and the many that will come after us, the United States.
Contributions I have made to society are by some many and few or none by others, maybe I am not even known to them, imagine that, "someone not knowing Knowledgeable Neil F. Clifford?" I have received kindness and help from many people including strangers in my life of nearly fifty one years of living in America. My story can be characterized as an attempt to build character and backbone. I have the childhood story to tell, the teenage years, the apprenticeship and concert years, the engineering and directing years, the starting over years. Throughout the story I will revive the beginning of my philosophy and the theme of Today is a building Day.
Sunday, 01 January 2012 09:49:06 AM
Will Power sounds so easy for me to tackle, yet my self discipline and self respect have yet to get the message! As I look forward to my fifty first year of living I lack the will power to make the major impact I long for. That must change because there is a duty to all for moving the country past the mess we see The United States, states, counties and small municipalities in.
I have paid down my personal debt, paid off my car loan, and credit cards except for my student loans and my house. Will power helped me bring my debt down, but lack of will power put in the precarious position in the first place. In 2011 I was trained at work like no other year I ever experienced. That would be hard to believe after all of the great jobs I have experienced and been trained at. I program CNC EDM Wire machine and a CNC Vertical Milling machine and set up and operate them. Pretty cool to program and run your own programs to make tooling.
This year maybe my year of photography notoriety. I published my first, second and third limited edition 2012 calendar's featuring my photos. Will power helped me do that. I long for the self discipline and will try to understand the simplest of things.
Today is a building day and I am building my way by telling my story to you...
Obviously, I have not focused on my writing. But, that will change drastically. I will outline my story chronologically. This would be the simplest way today to get started and actually accomplish my memoir, my auto-biography.
On 24th of January 2011, I was hired by another company. My title is Toolmaker / CNC Machinist. I have been working in metal shop since September 1978. I have learned a tremendous amount of knowledge in this career, a lot about people and a lot about engineering products, from jet airliners, to medical delivery devices, and Black & Decker circular saws in between. I have much to learn, but also I have so much to offer others. I am thankful for all of the people whom have helped me learn my skill set. To be able to work with so many companies and learn so much has been a blessing!
From July 2007 until August 2010 I worked with a German company Voith Hydro Power Generation and I left them in August to work as a contractor with JFC Global, a headhunter agency who helped me land employment with a company from Australia, UniLife Medical Solutions. I am in my third week officially with a great company. Next month I will travel to Charlotte, North Carolina for training that will be great for my job.
Sunday, 07 February 2010 05:09:44 PM
Below I started to tell a tale of a lifetime. The day today is nearly one year since I updated this. I need follow through and work more on this.
I hear and see on the news about the tough and terrible times we as a nation and the world is experiencing and living through! These are my therapeutic thoughts about the day in this age of greed, credit, despair and little hope to many people I see in the news.
First and foremost I have this computer to type and utilize, bought on credit and still being paid for. I have established and used credit to my advantage for the past decade or so. I had credit before that and used it, never really abused it. Today I am experiencing the benefits of that credit. If all of these credit lines were taken away, I really wonder what might be left for me to enjoy or use.
I have a home and mortgage which I recently refinanced and lowered my payments from $1061 a month to around $500 a month. Only with a good credit score and a good job was this possible. This came after my failure to get elected primarily due to lack of money to get my message out to the voters.
I counted on others to carry the political message and help finance the campaign, but I am sadly mistaken about the results and the only thing to help with my anger and bitterness toward the election process and election cycles was to go back to work in the machine shop and get myself back on track to success by working and saving. My motto years ago became debt down cash up. I learned and heard that from a boss or owner of a company that was in bankruptcy court hearings. I liked the thought of cash up and debt down. One major problem though happened. I was laid off of work and began to live on credit.
Living on credit truly hurt me, yet it kept me going, through elections tries, college education, book purchases, eating, drinking and every facet of my life became credit usage to survive. I had no one to turn to for help or advice it seemed; I just had to make ends meet. My mom was suffering with Alzheimer’s disease in a nursing home among many other family issues I had to deal with.
I plan to continue to write more of my story here on my web site. Please check back for more of my story.
This story is true. No names have been changed to protect the truth and to show a pattern of happenings here on earth.
During my first interview about my candidacy for United States of House of Representatives for the 19th District of south central Pennsylvania, I met with Lauri Lebo of the York Dispatch/Sunday News at a Restaurant on George Street, in York, Pennsylvania. During the interview while talking about self destructive behavior I mistakenly spoke to her about a vision or dream I had concerning JFK Jr. being lost at sea. I thought I read an article on the NEW YORK TIMES WEB SITE stating he was lost at sea. She asked me,” Was he in a ship wreck?” I said, "No his plane went down and was missing at sea".
At this point I felt terrible because this was an interview to compile a profile of me as a candidate for Congress. When Lauri Lebo pressed me with more questions the story gets wilder. Lauri said, "Let’s run with this."
Lauri asked, "Where was he headed to?" I said a wedding where ever his family hangs out is, Nova Scotia. Lauri replied, "Martha's Vineyard, the wedding isn't until next month". I said ok. Who's wedding? His cousins she said. Lauri knew about the wedding in July.
I still felt I read this on the web. Or did I dream it? When I closed my eyes in despair, I felt I saw him in the flight deck and I was with him going down in the fog! I shook with fright and Lauri continued to press more questions on me.
I wanted to stop talking about it. But, like Eve with an apple, Lauri pinned me with another question. Commanding she said, "Close your eyes!" I continued to frighten myself. I wanted to stop.
I closed my eyes and thought I had been walking on the beach. Luggage was washing up. Lauri asked "now what?" Finally, she said whose luggage was it? Reluctantly I closed my eyes and said Lauren her brother. Lauri Lebo replied, "She doesn't have a brother, that is her sister." I said, "This is morbid. That's it no more. I am not talking about it anymore."
The interview that started around noon lasted until about 1:30pm when Lauri declared her brain was frazzled and she thought she had enough.
She asked me was I going to write to JFK JR. I said no he would think I was a nut. I told her let a press leak out that would make sense jokingly.
Either way this was not a pleasant thought to have happened in my first ever newspaper interview!
How it changed my life:
Well it sent me into to a brown study. I had a difficult time with this for many reasons. The day the wreck happened Lauri called me and asked what did I have to say about my predictions? I told her no man can predict the future. She said this was my ticket to “Meet the Press, just what I was waiting for. I went back to sleep and I said to GOD, IF THIS HAS REALLY HAPPENED LET ME LIVE MY LIFE LIKE IT NEVER HAS HAPPENED.
A few a months ago I saw Lauri and her husband at a party a friend of mine was having. Funny story with strange twist 11 years later; Lauri told some people I was spreading falsehoods about her. She said I failed to cooperate with the story…
