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I have to say that 2008 has been the year of Limited Availability for me.

I can't think of another time in the last 11 years where I have been less available in all sorts of ways than now.

I haven't had a (Home/Cell) phone since May. I really haven't had (my own) an internet connection. I am physically 100 miles from most of the people whom I used to associate and hang out with.

Besides a handful of people (I'd have to say less than 20) no one really knows where I am and much less what I've been up to.

Most people haven't seen/heard from me for at least 3 to 10 months if not more.

My Limited Availability online is evidenced by not only lack of blog entires, but partically any site in which I have an account at.

For a brief time I had started experimenting with Soup via a site I entitled: Spill...

I also continued to try to update my tumblr with shared items from my Google Reader although now slow and unstable internet forced me back to usage of a desktop reader...

I had also been updating my Wordpress rather well with particular reviews of TV Shows and Films yet that too also fell through...

I attempted to re-kindle my affections with Twitter a little over a month ago but that ended rather quickly due to lack of internet connectivity and phone.

I even posted a rather long Utterz...

My Limited Availability physically is evidenced by myself seeming indisposed and averse to any sort of social outing, communication or otherwise--basically "…being uncommuncationable." Which is mostly based on the fact that I am not where I usually am.

I have thought my disappearance, my extended leave of absence; call it what you may, would wreak havoc upon all and any of my relationships be they close or slight...

Yet having been gone for so long I have come to realize that truly those whom know me, have come to know me, etc. have the knowledge that I do tend to 'disappear' and 'reappear' every now and again sometimes longer than other previous times...

My Limited Availability --this year, 2008 has been one of those years where I have done numerous disappearing and reappearing acts. Each longer than last.

Although each time I do reappear, as I am doing so now, I am apt to comment on my disappearance and sometimes...or eventually at some point come to detail my disappearance.

dmotion just has Limited Availability right now...

I've been very anti-social on the internet lately--I'd say pretty much for a good chunk of the month of July.

The reason being is due to first, my very unstable internet connection.

So far out of the 24 days in July I've had working internet for 14 days. With speeds ranging, but not limited to 3kbps to 89kbps.

Those 14 days of with varying speeds have made it very hard to accomplish much of anything.

Just going through say 200 feed items takes more than an hour sometimes closing in on the two hour mark...

However I've been a good little dmotion and been posting select feed items over on my Tumblr.

...It's July--or it has been July for some time now.

Of course July is the 'Holy' month of Cycling for me and many others...Le Tour De France!

So being who I am, much of my talk and much of my time (6:30AM EST TO 2:30PM EST) would be Le Tour De France...

Alas, for the first time in very many years it has not been so.

Due to my not having Cable/Satellite at the moment, (...I don't even have consistent internet much less TV...) I've been unable to Watch and Follow my beloved Tour De France...even via internet. (As I've said the internet has only been viable for 14 days this month.)

Yet despite all of this I am still informed, not as I would like to be, but enough to know and to be able to enjoy, albeit deprived of much enjoyment.

I am and have been thrilled about Damiano Cunego's participation in this year's Tour De France.

He's currently 14th overall.

There aren't very many of my favorites this year in The Tour--actually hardly any.

Chief among them Andreas Kloden, who could have very easily won the Tour De France last year had there had not been the Vino Incident that prompted the withdrawal of Team Astana.

Which in and of itself I deem very suspicious as I remember, (as I even recorded the stage) I could not even maintain my excitement at the magnificent astounding time trial of one of my most favorite riders: Alexandre Vinokourov and Andreas Kloden's placing that day and Astana's ascent to victory.

Alas such shock came to me at the accusations, the tests, the withdrawal.

Last year's Tour sucked really bad.

Despite that most people blame it on the Athletes and doping, I blame it on the laboratory testing facilities.

My frustration and anger was not to Vino that day but directly to the laboratory doing the testing.

I have found it rather interesting that no one in the cycling community has brought up that doping accusations, testing, investigations in recent times have very much eliminated the competition...for someone...

It's rather interesting that here the day when key Astana members have moved up on the GC (General Classification) that Andreas Kloden is poised to possibly win the Tour De France that one of the key members of Astana is accused and said that he has tested positive for blood doping...

I don't know if anyone has ever considered and/or looked into seeing if many of these laboratories have been paid off, planted things, botched test results--if there has/is evidence of foul play?

Surely we cannot forget the laboratory's "administrative error" with Landis...

Like I said before: "...this whole 'doping' thing is going to get sloppy..."

A very good case is the case of my favorite Sprinter: Alessandro Petacchi and his Asthma medication.

It's so strange how it seems they're knocking off major contenders.

Anyways I have high hopes for another big favorite of mine: Yaroslav Popovych (currently 25th overall) and his entire Silence-Lotto squad making big moves on the GCs and Points classification.

Out of all the squads I can see Silence-Lotto across the board:

Cadel Evans--Maillot jaune

Yarosalv Popovych--Maillot à pois rouges

Robbie McEwen--Maillot vert

I decided to finally unveil Uncut over at Baywords by adding it to my lineup of badges or baybeees as Catharsis and I call them.

There are things that actually don't end up being unveiled by the act of me putting it on the badges such as Utterz and Pownce just to name a few. Why?

I'd like not publicize some things...or at least not till I am sure that I will update them in frequency and/or that I truly like the platform. However there are some exceptions.

For example del.icio.us, Flickr, Tumblr, and last.fm are platforms I like but recently have sparingly updated them but also didn't update them when had the chance due it being a bit daunting at times.

The are other things such as MySpace and YouTube that I have displayed just due to the fact that a lot of people have them and it would be weird not to have them.

Things I'd like not to publicize are Facebook as well as other things. Again why?

There's a lot of mix and matching as well as mashing today but I have never been one to mash separate social applications and/or post the same thing over and over again.

Link to them--sure, but I treat each service I sign up individually and will occasionally pay tribute and/or allude to a site's content.

However the Tumblr is one place where I have select sites all displayed into one.

If you're good at sifting out things you'll see each medium I've displayed in the badges has it's own specific content with it's own updating interval--although at the moment it's highly sporadic.

Back to Uncut though...Uncut is an interesting experiment for me. I'll explain:

dmotion over at Wordpress is commentary on news, social and tech. Due to time constraints I don't update it much; I intend to do so though...

This livejournal is more concrete analyzation of exclusive things plus slightly vague personal things.

The Tumblr is a mixture of Recently Listened Music updates, WriteSomething posts, Shared Items on Google Reader, as well as the Wordpress and this livejournal.

The MySpace blog is more in-depth, long drawn out and short reflective narratives about myself and situations I have come across. This is updated only when I have such situations that allow me to write as afore mentioned and when I have the time.

There's the Consider Tumblr which is an experiment I've put on hold mainly due to time constraints...

Yet Uncut is Uncut in more ways than one. In regards to myself and my activities on the net--Uncut explains it better...