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i'm elana. . . . i'm 37, single. . . . in most cases i prefer the company of animals to humans.

[Elena, let me introduce you to my friend here, Li'l Beav--uh, Li'l Mole. I'm sure you two will have a lot to talk about.]

Ever since I posted this, people have been asking me, "So, Charlie, how did Li'l Beaver do with Elena?"

Oh, not so good, I must report. Even though Li'l Beaver went undercover as a mole, still, he decided to wear that stupid man-purse PJ got him:

I told him, I said, "Look, Beav, I'm your wingman, and I've got you're best interests at heart. So, please, lose the man-purse. It's too effeminate. I know these are going to be hippie chicks here at this party, but still, deep down they really want a manly guy."

But does he listen to me? NOOO!!! Elena took one look at the belly-bag and was like, "Meh."

Bienvenidos desde La Republica Capitalista (en un futuro Cercano) de Venezuela de Venezuela.

I have a lot of fascinating things to report and most of them will be in an FR thread journal of my trip which I already started. The GOOD NEWS is that things are destined to get much better later in 2012 due to the ¨biological solution¨ to many of the current problems in a few months. Biggest surprise is the weather which, since this is a mountainous area, is in the 70s during the day and in the 60s at night. I see this area as a big attraction for Americans soon because as Mexico becomes much more dangerous, this will become much more attractive to tourists. So far in San Cristobal I have seen NO signs of gang activity nor gang graffiti on the walls. The young people here are very cleancut much like American youth from the 1950s. Caracas is a different story as far as crime and probably should be avoided even when the political situation changes soon. I am impressed by the LACK of tattoos and skin piercings on young folks here. Sorry LA Ink but tattoos and skin piercings are definite signs of low class mentality.

I did something in the form of an on the spot ¨project¨ a couple of days ago that I better not post about in the open but I´ll send you a private message on the topic. Let us just say it could be destined to become a tourist attraction.

Oh and you definitely want to avoid drinking the public water which is not hard to do since I haven´t seen any public water fountains yet. The good news is that you can easily quench your thirst with Polar Ice beer which is available everywhere and is extremely inexpensive.

Finally, if you could, Charles, could you start out your next DUFU edition out with ¨Saludos a Padre Roberto Garcia de San Cristobal.¨ He officiated at a wedding ceremony in a mountain resort yesterday which I attended. Since I stood out as being obviously a ¨gringo¨ American he kept staring at me during the reception. After a few drinks together we became quite friendly although I am sure he still thinks I´m NUts because I was blabbering to him about the ¨Fabric of the Universe¨ series (guess who was the major underwriter of that series?) and how the universe couldn´t exist if the force of gravity had been either the tiniest fraction of strength greater or less. I gave him the blogspot address of the DUmmie FUnnies (also NewsBusters since he was interested in politics).