Shirtz update:

Quick update, ladies and gents, and that is that we're temporarily stalled.

I  have been unable to recontact the aforementioned local guy. It's not a  case of him 'ghosting' me or anything- I thought I had his number from  several years ago, but I can't find it. A message left through the one  other point of contact has not yet produced a connection.

Nothing  nefarious, it's just modern communications SNAFU- he's an older gent  and has no 'web presence', there are no phone books for cell numbers,  and I suspect he doesn't even carry his phone around regularly. :) (And his old storefront landline is of course disconnected.)

I  have also not heard anything from TopatoCo, either negative or  positive. I'd expected at least a "thank you, but we're not accepting  new clients at this time" or something. As I said, I probably don't have  enough traffic for them...

There's always places  like Cafepress and Zazzle, but I keep being told their shirts are  mediocre quality, and I know that the last time I looked, they took like  85% of the sale price.

I do, as mentioned earlier,  have my own fairly complete, but as-yet unassembled and untested  screen-printing system. After the local guy went off to his other work, I  wanted to restart the shirts, and have since collected, at no small  expense, nearly everything I need. The only thing I'm short on is the  emulsions used to mask the screens themselves. (And that's a chemical  you want to use fairly fresh- I didn't intend to buy any until I was  ready to give it a proper try.)

It would take me a  couple of months to get that all set up- I have to build a stand for the  spinny thing, among other little tasks- and clear a spot somewhere,  where I can set it up, plus of course some practice time, etc.

Call that one our last-ditch option.

Stand by, we'll figure something out. ;)

Doc.