As many of you know, I was selling off most of my gear to fund my dream car, an older Porsche. Some of you have seen Veronica in person at Aruba Beach Cafe, and she continues to give me much pleasure. The gear sale is just about complete, with just my CIJ Tele, my 1971 50 watt Marshall small box Tremolo, Mojo cab with Celestion Gold and Scumbag speakers, and the CAE MC404 wah still for sale.
I've been pleased as all the other gear sold has paid for 3/4 of the car.
I continue to teach those pesky 6th graders (especially my last period of the day...they won't shut up!) and unfortunately, the politics of teaching is getting worse by the month, especially here in Florida, and it takes the joy out of teaching; but there is plenty of happy things in my life also.
Almost 16 months ago, I found the woman that makes me happier than any other woman and we continue to laugh a lot, something I did very little of in my previous marriage of 22 years.
My son Michael also continues to bring me a lot of joy and continues to amaze me with his skills; he is an advertising major at Temple University (a senior), working at DEC, Temple's own agency. He is with the group working on a campaign for the US State Department, and best of all, he landed a paid summer internship at Satchi & Satchi's New York office; he was one of 400 applicants; as you can tell, I'm a proud father.

Some recent photos, taken in Ft. Lauderdale and at the 12 Hours of Sebring.

Michael during spring break



Laurie in Ft Lauderdale


At the Porsche hospitality tent


On the track at Sebring; great fun and great track.


Have a great weekend.

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Current Gear: Ron Kirn Barnbuster Tele,
Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica

nice pics... and welcome back.
how long did it take you to get the face-print off the hood?

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Hey Serge, glad to have news from you.

Great car! If I had the money, I'd pop on this 60s Impala for sale in my area. I don't, of course. Moped for life!

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Welcome back to the Forum Serge,although I 've been keeping track with your activities on FB I'm sure that other forumites were wondering how things have been going for you. Of course with a beautiful lady,a classic car and a son that any man would be proud to have things couldn't be better for you,except perhaps to have your guitar collection built up again... lol.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Nice car, Nice gal, and a fine son...you hit the trifecta! Glad to hear life is going so good.

T2

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What time is it? It's Fender Time.

Good to see your post Serge! Great photo's, thanks for posting.

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Welcome back to the forum my friend!! Looks like you've been doing fine!!

From here on you shall be known as "Serge the smile" and.. ahem.. no wonder

Not too long! A bit of Meguiars Quik Detailer and it was gone.
I haven't played in a long time; my fingers seem to not be cooperating. Maybe a bit of arthritis or just old age? Both hands have joints that are a bit swollen and give me some pain. I intend to keep one guitar and one amp, however. The 71 Super Lead already has Michael's name on it. When he gets his own place, I'll shlep it up to him. The Ron Kirn is staying here with me.

It is just about that time to start counting down to the last day of school; 30 school days left! I'm hoping (again) to change out of 6th grade and get into 8th grade next year. I need the change as I'm tired and bored of teaching Ancient World History...I NEED American History, or even 7th grade Civics. 7th has been Geography; starting next year it'll be Civics. I guess the state of FloriDUH figures kids don't need to know where anything is!
Have a good day.

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Current Gear: Ron Kirn Barnbuster Tele,
Marshall: 1971 SuperLead 100>1997 1960-TV, bunch of pedals
and a 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera coupe named Veronica