And it was a LONG time ago :-). Mensa wasn`t a career. Sorry if it sounded like I implied as such. One just doesn`t hear of many Mensa qualified people wanting to play guitar for a living and become rock stars. Highly intelligent people are expected (socially) to do great things for society and teach, or do research, or whatever. I wasn`t trying to prove anything other than I just might have an intelligent opinion on something. Did I succeed with my whole "rock star" thing? Well, I made 88 grand in 12 months playing a guitar 4 days a week, so I guess I did what I set out to do. Of course I did what every other kid that`s way to young to handle money did: I pissed it all away on cool stuff and gave the leftover to the IRS :-(. Nonetheless, I haven`t been in school in almost ten years, and some of the details are slipping by (ain`t 30 a bitch?). And all the philosophy is best reserved for a more appropriate forum anyway. Peace!