special treat

well people of the world wide web due to all the commotion and craziness of the countdown of doom i've neglected a key promise i made to you guys a while back. i'd hoped to be sure to get a vlog up every 25 posts or so, but if you were paying attention i've gone a few over that with no vlog.

now sadly i still haven't had time in my busy schedule (what with the new job, and figuring out what life in dunedin is REALLY about) to get a vlog done. however the crazy guys at prehistoric insanity (the nice people who make my vlogs possible) have posted the UNOFFICIAL royal tyrrell museum training video. guess who it's about...

that's right... this is the true story of how it was all those years ago i got my job in drumheller!

it is kind of a fitting thing for me to post right now. the museum is no doubt in the midst of gearing up for a new summer, and this will be the first summer in years i haven't been there!

fortuently i don't have time to get sad or homesick about that last fact.

so take a trip back into my past... the year was 2004...

going down memory lane (laid off part 2)

for a minute i thought that today was all a horrible horrible dream... so like in the movies when their stuck in a nightmare i went to sleep. that way i'd wake up and everything would be back to normal...

instead i woke up to find that in addition to being laid off, one of the salamanders in the garden had pooped on me. that and i'd wasted my last day as an employee! man why do movies lie to me all the time?

hearing the annoucement over the PA that the museum was closing in 5 min i figured i should do the right thing, and as a new member of the public i'd have to leave the building. man what a march of pain that was... and i know all about marches of pain! i've worked at badlands sciency camp!


there was all the gang in the dino hall doing their thing. the thing that they were here to do. i'd always thought someday i'd get to do it with them. i mean hey i'm a dinosaur just like them why shouldn't i have been in the dino hall too? but i was too small, too dumb, and got there after all the other dinos had.

if only i'd hit my growth spurt, or had a bigger brain, or been born before the museum originally opened...

even my mom had nothing to say to comfort me... i know she only speaks when she has something important to say, but i think this would have been the time!


walking toward the exit i couldn't help but wonder what was going to become of me. i didn't just loss my job, but i also lost my home, and even more i'd lost my place in dinosaur utopia. this is where we still rule the earth. people come from all over to see us. i'd always thought someday it would be me that the little kiddies would walk up to, and have their eyes light up and scream "it's a dinosaur! the best i've ever seen!".

drumheller may be the dinosaur captial of canada, but even us dinos have to pay rent... and this valley's stuffed to the brim with us... i am going to have to see if i can get a job somewhere else... there must be a way!

keep your fingers crossed for me people of the innerweb... i'm going to need all the help i can get!

the END?!?!?!?!? (Laid Off part 1)

oh no!!!

i knew i forgot something yesterday! the museum was going to figure out what my job for the fall was going to be... and uh well this whole lillian thing kinda got outta hand... so much so that my hiding in sheer terror meant i missed the meeting about my job!

uh i'm not sure how to say this but... they FIRED ME!!!

it was horrible. cam stumbled on me while i was hiding behind the puzzle monkey tree... which by the way makes an excellent hiding place if ever you need to find one in the cretaceous garden. especially if being hunted by a large predator... where was i again... OH YEAH! FIRED!!!

so there i was hiding when cam walks up and is like "uh dude what are you doing here?" and i'm all like "hiding from lillian! keep your voice down!" and then cam says "uh dude. you were supposed to be at the meeting yesterday. you better come with me"


so i followed him into the museum lobby where he went over the meeting of the big cheeses...yummy... or i mean the big bosses (though in fairness their actually really small compared to most of the dinos in the museum... just bigger then me) who decided that they have enough dinosaurs, and that at this time there is currently no need for my services at the museum for the time being...

i don't i don't know what i'm going to do people of the interweb...

sanctuary (lillian part 4)

oh man...

i've been lying low in the cretaceous garden for like a day... hoping lillian can't find me... you can hear her stalking the museum (especially at night) from in here...

fortunetly i blend in very as you can see....


i think everyone is getting worried about me though... they've called my name over the PA a bunch of times... i just don't want to risk leaving here and getting eaten is all!!!

in all of this fisaco i can't help but think i'm forgetting something else that was supposed to happen yesterday... hmmmm what was it?

what happened? (lillian part 3)

hey there people of the innerweb...

i don't know quite what happened... but everything is no good!

well here's how i best recall it.

there i was finishing my lunch...

when i noticed lillian had returned from her lunch, and was back in her corner of the gallery.

so i was all like "hey here's my chance", and i marched right on over to talk to her.


i started to tell her how i felt about her. i thought it was going really well... she didn't ask me to stop or anything...


then i happened to ask about the rumours of her leaving, and suddenly SWABAMOO!!!... she got really angry and was like "what do you mean?!? me the star attraction leave? how dare you imply i'm expendable pathetic spec!!!"... next thing i know she is trying to KILL ME!?!


i got out of there as fast as i could!

now i'm hiding in the library with the magic box waiting to see what happens next...

chickened out (lillian part 2)

okay so i chickened...

but i had a good reason. the triceratops i was going eat with her smelt so good... i uh kinda started without her...


by the time i came out of my feeding frenzy lillian had already left for lunch...


have to come up with a new plan... after lunch!

the plan (lillian part 1)

okay people of the innerweb,

i'm a little scared... their supposed to tell me, sometime this afternoon, what my job at the museum is going to be till next summer.... but even more important though today is the day that i ask lillian out...

based on all the helpful suggestions of my friends here at the museum (thanks christa, peter, and especially kirstin!) i'm actually going to do it... i won't chicken out. promise!

i have a plan... based on what kirsten tells me lillian's favorite food is ceratopsian. so i'm going to invite lillian to join me in eat some ceratopsian... mmmmmm burger.


so now all i have to do is not chicken out, and do it. yes no chickening out!

i love the museum!

okay people of the web wide world,

today is a important day. i have make sure i'm very professional, and show the bosses what i can do. tomorrow they are going to figure out my future position at the museum.


i figured at get things off to a good start so i consulted joe as to what he thought i should do. (joe tyrrell is who the museum was named after). well he didn't have a whole lot to say on the matter. so i figured that meant carry on as i have been.

which meant another day cruising the museum. man i love this job.

i get to catch up with all the dinos of the museum... can you believe the joke they were pulling. all of them were like "who are you?" and "when did you start here at the museum?"... such kidders



i also get to eat whenever, and whoever i wanted!

while wandering i also couldn't help but notice lillian......... drool


my friend kirsten in the lab has informed me of a very startling rumour that lillian might be leaving!!! i'm going to have to make my move soon then. while i still have the chance

homeward bound (DPP part 4)

well digging is all done sadly...

we got 12 bags of micro fossil matrix (that is to say we have 12 bags full fossil rich dirt!) which is pretty good... took me a little while to load them all into the truck mind you. tony and dr. brinkman were still tired from supervising me dig.

due to the long day we're simply heading straight back to the museum to unload our precious cargo.

we are taking one quick stop though at the dpp gas station... thus my chance to hop on dr. brinkman's portable co-puter...


they have a really good dino employment plan out here around dpp. the security guard was an albertosaurus. i chatted to him for a few minutes, and it turns out he is related to lillian... mmmmmm lillian so hot... but he won't tell me who she likes or put in a good word for me... he said i was not her type... jerk! oh well he's only a distant relative.

i can't wait to get to the museum, and tell everyone that i traumador went on a dig. that'll impress them!!! hopefully especially lillian...

buried treasure!!! (DPP part 3)

who knew that being a palaeontologist was so much work?!?

i mean we all hear about the fame, fortune, and or course girls... can you believe the ladies actually give palaeontologists full access to their, ummm, anatomy... lucky smucks is all i have to say!


at least they have to work for it, i discovered today. arriving at the micro fossil site dr. brinkman got right to work with the excavating (that's a pro term for digging f.y.i.)


it was worth it though. we knocked loose tons of solid chunks of matrix (no not keanu! that's what sciency people call the rock around fossils of both the micro and uh non-mirco kind) within were the little prehistoric treasures we were looking for!


but it's such hardwork that after only two minutes dr. brinkman got so tired that he let me do the digging! he said that there was no way he could continue so while i dug him and tony sat by supervising me... though i didn't know that sitting under an umberlla and drinking iced tea was supervising, but that's what dr. b said, and he's the expert!

no such thing as lunch? (DPP part 2)

wow!

been a while since i've been to the dpp's field station... they've made it all bigger and cooler! and to think it was out of comission for a whole year...

have to say though its a bit racey for a family establishment... what with the really pretty girl in the front lobby. baring everything for the world to see, have they no shame?!? i might have to write a letter to the minister...



well after both the shock and perusaling... or uh i mean disgust... it was time to find some lunch. after all one doesn't go into the field looking for fossils on an empty stomach...

i was in the mood for a steak, but sadly the local pack had already jumped all over the selection... ever since jurassic park them raptors think they owe the place... if only my mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin larry, or any other big t-rex were here. they'd remind them who the king of the dinosaurs was!


fortuently there was a nice burger just around the gallery. so after i'm done with this guy it's off to find fossils... wish us luck!

totally cool opportunity! (DPP part 1)

hello people of the web wide world

me once again... today was the most amazing day ever...

so there i was just sitting in the garden when suddenly my buddy tony came up and was like "hey traum what are you doing today?" and i was like "nothing"... cause remember since the end of summer my job doesn't exist anymore...

tony then asked me to come with him... turns out that he and THE dr. donald brinkman (curator of vertabrate palaeontology at the royal tyrrell museum!!!) were going to dinosaur provincal park (in my hubble little dinosaur opinion the best place in the world!) to dig for micro fossils.

micro fossils are just like normal fossils, the trace remains of ancient living dead things, just a tiny bit smaller...

anyways they needed more ppl to come on their dig, and since everyone else said no they came to me... isn't that really nice!!!

so here i am at dpp (that's the fancy short way to say dinosaur provincial park.... hehehehe look at me talking all like a sciency guy) ready to set off on a palaeontologic adenventure with tony

and dr. brinkman!!!

let you know how the dig goes first we have to check into the field station... keep you posted

my hidden desire

today was a pretty fun day. i'm loving this not having anything to do at work! everyone should request it!

it gave me time to wander all over the place through the museum. including a chance to hang with my mom... she didn't have much to say today, but then she usually doesn't. she's a great listener though! i talked to her for a good three hours.

the whole time though i couldn't help but notice the apple in my eye... lillian the albertosaur. standing so perfect and beautiful in her jungle corner.

if only i had the guts to ask her out. i've had a big crush on her for a long long time. lillian's a big star, a real celebrity at the museum in fact... she's probably more into big articulate specimens not a little carnivore like me though...

oh well blog people (who i still can't see) their closing the museum's library so i'll have to leave the magic box till later...

starting a blog...

hi there! i'm traumador the tyrannosaur!

today i just learned about this thing called the innerweb (though i have yet to be able to see a spider web in the back of my throat) and decided to check it out. it is really cool. through this magic box in the libaray it's like I'm connected to the whole world... i wonder how they do that? i can still see everything outside the window is okay, but then its also here in the box?!?

while i was checking out this co-puter my buddy cam walked by and told me i should start a blog...

so he made the magic box come here. cam tells me the point of a blog is to tell everyone on the innerweb about yourself... which is funny cause i can't see anyone on here. hello? are you there people of the innerweb? i can't see you...

well my name is traumador the tyrannosaur. i live in drumheller canada. it is a pretty cool place. that's cause it's a dinosaur town. there's tons of us living here, and humans from all over come to visit us. i work and live at the royal tyrrell museum of palaeontology with all my dino buddies.

today is a weird day cause it is the first day that the summer is over for us here at the museum. less people are coming to visit. so all the extra staff we had working here to help with the summer have gone. it's kinda sad and lonely now... espically since i'm still not allowed to live in the dinosaur gallery.

see only the big special important dinosaurs are allowed to live in the dino hall cause it's what all our visitors come to see. i'm very very small for a tyrannosaur, and whoever wanted to see a small tyrannosaur. so i'm not allowed to live in there...

just look how small i am compared to my mom in this picture (oh and you can see alot of the other guys who live in there!)...

but i do have a really really cool place called the Cretaceous garden. it's called a green house (but i could never figure out why... it's not green or even a house... just a big square made of glass...) and is full of plants that were around when we dinosaurs ruled the earth!

during the summer my job was to stand in the garden really still for the tourists to look at. just like in my great picture up top. that's me working! now that the summer is over though i don't know what i'm going to be doing. cam says they'll know for me soon. till then though i'm just going keep checking out this cool innerweb