As the great Buttons and the Whore once said, and I'm paraphrasing here.... Steve, you are a deity. Thus I have concluded that this break from podcasting amazingness is merely part of your great infallible plan of Escape Pod Greatness.
Yes I'm blinded by dogma but I'm entitled to it!
This is a very well deserved break and it's been a long time coming. Don't worry about it! We'll all survive a few weeks without stories, especially if it means keeping EP up and running in the long run.
I sincerely hope you get better, straighten everything out, attain Nirvana, etc. (I mean the band by the way... duh.)
I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds? Six pounds? Seven pounds?