Where do you read that I'm assuming 5 months of breaks within one year? I was talking about the 10 updates for PD13, not a particular timeframe. And even that is not an assumption, I was just saying that IF L&P were to take 2 weeks off after every one of these updates (for planning or whatever), we'd be looking at 5 months of nothingness for the entire PD13 (10 x 14 days). A process that could easily take 15-20 months of pure development time alone if every update is taking him 1,5-2 months to complete. That is without any breaks, hollidays or stray dogs eating his harddrives. I agree, he can't afford that with his development speed.
You know very well that L&P takes days off after every update, and you also know that he's disappearing quite often for whatever reason during the development. Everyone needs breaks, obviously, and I'm not trying to say that he can't take time off. I just hope that those breaks will be shorter than the usual 2 weeks from previous updates as releases are also smaller and more frequent is all.