Copyright 1998 -- Robert Baer Jr. Revised -- 2000 D. J. Entry - A "little birdy" told me! W A R N I N G ----------------- D I S C L A I M E R -------------- The story you are about to read is PURE FICTION, it REALLY DIDN'T HAPPAN only in my mind. It's for ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY, and NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY. The Dinosaur Chronicles: PROLOGUE Few Pre-historic creatures ever roam cyberspace, except one -- the Computer Dinosaur! One who believes RAM is a Dodge Truck and ROM is an android on the old Logan's Run TV series. Here is another entry from his "Journal" Entry # 211 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was the morning I finally decided to return to my "garden" on the hilltop and as least clean it up half-way decent. All of my friends were there to lend me a hand in this effort. The Computer Renegade rigged up a paint sprayer to cover up the graffetti left on the back fence by the "terrible pterodactyles." Xeren Zzoom, Wanna Talk and the Computer Counsellor tried to retill the soil so that at least all the motor oil would have a chance to wash away with the coming rains. Prairie Mason brought his whole family, they and Ben Maddog spent the morning picking the apples from the few trees that weren't ruined. "Us dogs are all experts on trees!" Ben Maddog joked. The Computer Gila Monster was quite content to spend the morning pulling weeds and "stomping" bugs --- and on occasion eating a little of each himself. Work was going smoothly until around 11:30 when a bird flew down and perched on the newly painted fence. I turned and said,"watch it, that's wet paint..." "Hello Dinosaur," the bird replied,"don't you remember me?" I thought a minute, and I did remember her,"you're Robin Mallory, aren't you?" "I knew you couldn't forget me, dinosaur," she said,"it's been a lot of years since our college days though." "Yes, we had a few classes together, didn't we?" I said happily,"what brings you here?" "I was on my way north to meet my husband back at the old summer nest," Robin explained,"so I was in the area and decided to drop by and say hi!" So I summoned all my friends and introduced them to Robin. "So you went to school with this big leather-skinned geek?" the Gila Monster joked,"must have been "loads" of fun!" Prairie's children had the most interesting questions, asking her about her husband's job and how her career as a radio DJ was going. Just as we were all having a wonderful discussion, I heard a familiar sound of large flapping wings overhead. "Well well, what have we here?" a strange "bird" snarled as he perched in a nearby apple tree. "Romulas and Remus, right?" Robin shyly asked me in a whisper. "How nice of you people to fix up this garden," Romulas muttered,"more fun for us to tear it up again! " Who's the birdy, lizard lips?" Remus laughed, " Is she your lastest attempt at a girlfriend, gargantuwa?" The Gila Monster rared back to throw his two-by-four at them, but the Counsellor grabbed his arm and shook her head. "You two haven't changed one bit since you got thrown out of college," Robin answered fearlessly,"still just as destructive and brainless as always...." "SHUT UP little birdy or I'll grab you in my claws and eat you!" Remus screamed,"what a joke! Don't any of you people realize what a pathetic loser this poor excuse for a dinosaur he is? " "You're wrong!" shouted the Counsellor,"he's one of the kindest, warm hearted creatures I've ever known! Why don't you just leave him alone, he's done nothing to you!" All my friends nodded their heads in agreement, Prairie's children started growling at her but Prairie Rose hushed them up. "You know," Robin Mallory interrupted,"I saw you in a nest as I was flying by about five minutes ago." "Five minutes ago?" Remus wondered,"that must've been Romulas, I was over at my parent's place begging for money ... er ... I mean visiting!" "Really?" Robin said,"I saw one of you pterodactyles taking more money out of a sock drawer and ..." "Sock drawer?" Romulas replied with a surprised look on her face. Remus began to squirm. "HEY! That's my secret hiding place for money!" Rolumas yelled out as he turned and looked at Remus,"SO! You've been stealing from me, have you?" "Well ...... this is really none of my business," Robin stated curtly and turned to the others and said,"now where were we?" "Let me explain!" Remus begged as he quickly flapped his wings and headed in the direction of their nest. "I'll explain something to you alright!" Romulas yelled out,"I'll explain how many lumps I'm going to put on your miserable looking head, you sneak thief!" "It appears that what goes around, comes around!" Xeren added. "Those two have always been jerks!" Robin shyly asked,"talk about your small world!" "I should've let Romulas borrow my two-by-four!" the Gila Monster snickered. "Believe me, he won't need a board to beat him up with!" I added. "I have to leave now," Robin chirped,"my husband is waiting for me, goodbye everyone! I'll stay in touch, dinosaur!" "Goodbye Robin, and thanks for stopping by!" I shouted as she flew away. "I'm glad she came by!" I said, "she really got the best of those two idiots that time!" All of us laughed and then finished cleaning up the garden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- End of Entry