http://www.islandrichards.com My Own Island On The Web Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One step at a time, we are reclaiming our civil rights. This is just a small step though. We need to put unlicensed carry back on the table and also push through a bill to declare Wyoming guns off limits to the federal government. It’s a start though… An email dispatch from the NRA Concealed Carry Reform [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2010/03/08/concealed-carry-reform-becomes-law-in-wyoming-2/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2010/03/03/i-am-reading-the-furies-of-calderon-by-jim-butcher/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2010/01/26/i-am-reading-warbreaker-by-brandon-sanderson/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/11/22/i-am-reading-the-gathering-storm-by-robert-jordan-and-brandon-sanderson/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/11/01/i-am-reading-hyperion-by-dan-simmons/ A mentor once told me, speaking of the Republican Party, “This isn’t a religion for me. I’m a Republican because it’s the party that I believe is best suited to promote my values and my vision. If it stops being that party, I’ll find another one.” The abandonment of Dede Scozzafava by the conservative voters [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/10/31/the-gop-is-not-my-religion/ President Obama recently commented that the reason American K-12 education is falling behind other industrialized nations is because kids don’t spend enough time in school. His plan to save our education system from its slow death spiral is simple: on a national basis we should make school days longer and extend the average school year [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/29/education-reform-%e2%80%93-nationally-locally-and-individually/ First of all, Teresa and I planned to do this ride on Saturday, September 26, but we got lost. Well, we weren’t actually lost, we always knew where we were, but I made the mistake of trusting the navigation system in Teresa’s Cadillac to get us to the trail head. It took us on the [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/29/turkey-flats-trail-in-fruita-co-%e2%80%93-september-27-2009-%e2%80%93-video-%e2%80%93-photos/ From greenriverbikepark.com >> Volunteer Bike Park Builder Weekend- Hilride is coming back to town to offer a second bike park builder training. Volunteers are needed! Download the flyer for all the details and spread the word!! Download the Volunteer Builder Waiver and bring it with you. Please come prepared with sturdy shoes (boots preferred) and gloves. Materials and [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/28/builder-weekend-scheduled-at-the-green-river-bike-park-october-9-112009/ Well, AT&T doesn’t have any local service in Rock Springs, and I don’t have an address in any market that does, and I definitely can’t afford to buy a factory unlocked iPhone for $1000+ so I went for the next best thing and got one a new iPod Touch. No camera, and no 3G, but [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/24/no-iphone-service-in-rock-springs-meh/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/24/i-am-reading-brandon-sanderson-the-hero-of-ages-mistborn-book-3/ According to an E-mail from Rachael Lopes from Hilride there will likely be another builder training weekend at the Green River Bike Park sometime in October. I’ll post specifics as they come available. Also, rumor has it that a Rock Springs Bike Park could be in the works? Hope so. ]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/24/another-builder-training-weekend-in-october/ My wife Teresa, my son Brandon, and I volunteered some time this weekend to help build the new Green River Bike Park in Green River, Wyoming. The plan is for it to have a wide range of terrain for all skill levels. There will be a loop trail, a pump track, a drop zone, dirt jumps, [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/13/green-river-bike-park-%e2%80%93-volunteer-weekend-%e2%80%93-september-11-13-2009/ Update September 11, 2009:  This is a story I wrote last year in remembrance of the tragedy of September 11, 2001. It’s now been 8 years since that fateful day, but the memory of it is still vivid in my mind, as are the emotions that this day brings back. We will always remember the [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/11/9-11-2001-we-will-always-remember-2/ I stole J Island’s iPod Touch today to play with it since I never really have before and I have to say, this thing is freaking cool! Of course the first thing I did with it is install a Facebook app which puts the one on my Omnia phone to shame. The Twitter app for [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/08/new-blogging-gadget/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/09/04/i-am-reading-brandon-sanderson-the-well-of-ascension-mistborn-book-2/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/08/25/i-am-reading-brandon-sanderson-the-final-empire-mistborn-book-1/ During the first week of August Teresa, J Island, Brandon, McKenna, and I all went on a Caribbean cruise from Miami to Jamaica and Grand Cayman. We had an absolute blast. Everyone always said that the color of the water in the Caribbean is amazing, and they were right. Wow. And there is nothing quite like [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/08/24/islands-in-the-islands-our-2009-family-vacation-to-the-caribbean/ If you ever check up on me on this blog, you know that I am a huge science fiction and fantasy fan. Two out of three novels that I read are typically in the science fiction and fantasy genre. One of the greatest writers of that genre was Robert Jordan Robert Jordan, whose real name was [...]]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/07/31/a-memory-of-light-to-be-relased-in-3-volumes/ This is the excerpt of your first post template...]]> http://www.islandrichards.com/2009/07/31/i-am-reading-orson-scott-card-children-of-the-mind-ender-book-4/