It'll be less direct negotiation, and more handling the day-to-day details and logistics. They're a needy bunch, and you have experience sorting the wheat from the chaff, as well as how to provide a rather firm 'no' when it's needed, and if we get to the point where they're asking for a firm commitment in anything, well, that'll be progress, and I'll help steer things.

I'm hoping that if they have to talk to an intermediary, they'll be more focused and bring actual solutions to the table when it is time to really and truly negotiate. They're just posturing at this point, and I don't have the patience or the time for it.