hey thanks a bunch...
I don't think this is the right job for me to want you to go that far with it...
...to explain better would be to start revealing the tip of an iceberg worth of a topic that I've felt I should start writing up here some day...
...but the short version is that i don't love this business near as much as I used to, and as a result, I work alone now, trying to downsize from my glory days, instead of trying to build my business... maybe I'll get out of this burn-out slump & grow again... but for the mean time, I'm staying busy without venturing too far into the weeds on oddball stuff... or wasting too much time on tire kickers... and this client called twice today, with endless questions, but no art, and no clue about the intended art... but asking me to send templates for their artist... and kept mentioning the otherS who are bidding...
...so, I guess the short version is I feel like telling them "sorry, couldn't find anything meeting your specs" and move on to the next tire kicker..
...and I'll save my favors from my friends, for jobs where I have half a reason to believe there is a real job & a loyal client worth my efforts!