'Tis the season of schedules adjusted, deadlines tweaked and expectations put in abeyance, and in that spirit of the holidays I offer this respite to you and yours -- a podcast-free November has stretched languidly into a December unencumbered by new episodes of The Membrane.  I suggest you take advantage of this break by getting some sleep, eating lots of fat and sugar and enjoying some well-deserved television.Audio transmission will resume upon my reacquisition of the control of time and space.  When will that be, exactly?  There's no telling.  But I'm thinkin' early January.Thanks and best wishes to you.- Steve