Yep, it’s true. STeaP is taking a holiday break, or rather, I (Brandice) am taking a holiday break from filming STeaP. The blog will continue, and I’m very excited about a couple of people that we’ll have as contributors to the blog in the near future, but there will be no new episodes until December 15th, at which point we’ll get started up with the weekly schedule again.

The plan is to get the domain moved from Joe’s hosting to mine, eat some turkey over the Thanksgiving season, figure out a schedule for the new contributors (including some possible video footage!), make some adjustments to the website once it’s moved to my hosting, get a large backlog of prizes mailed to most of you, get some raw STeaP footage piled up for a few episodes, and then jump back into STeaP before Christmas so that I can give away some Christmas goodies to all of you (of which I have many!).

In the meantime, enjoy some more activity on the blog outside of just podcast entries, and please let me know what you want to see and read from STeaP as we continue to evolve into something that I hope will be increasingly successful long term. :)

To make up for no episode this week, check out Anthony Bourdain’s tasting of Uzbekistan tea? Sounds a bit like the men are the only ones who get to enjoy it, but the customs around the tea are interesting… how much tea to put in a cup, etc. If anyone finds any and send it my way (or just tell me where I can order it), there will be tea prizes!

See you on the forums and on the flip side!