thank you, your meditation is just what I needed :)

to summarize:

• given my salary is unchanged and my knowledge grows, here incremental saving number one.
• given I already have scripts so I do not rewrite them anymore. This is actually even more serious than it appears to be: my utils are executed regularly by other people thus giving saving of language translators work, but I am writing new utilites to optimize even more, thus incremental saving.
• given they want numbers they want to hear, I'll provide $3K-$5K estimate, thus for everyone to be happy, and me to be a good workizen :):)