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“R” is for Randy & “S” is for Sarah

Randy Hicks — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:06:07 +0000

Sarah and I have been chipping away at the wedding planning!!! We even tried to have a Wedding Shower, but sure enough the day we set for the shower Nashville decided to let the clouds snow on it more than it has in over decade (stupid clouds)

We are still on the hunt for a good Jazz Band, and we are still on the hunt for some warm weather too… If anyone here in Music City has any suggestions let us know

Top 10 of My 30th Year

Randy Hicks — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:11:04 +0000

So I’m 31 now and I was thinking it would be cool to try and come up with my top 5 things of my 30th year and my 5 pics of my 30th year.

Top 5 Things:

Meeting the most amazing girl at a coffee shop in Franklin!!!
Asking Sarah (the most amazing girl) to marry me!
Went to the Space Needle in Seattle.
Made about 2 Dozen new friends!
Went to California with Sarah to see my Family

Top 5 Pics:

Nashville Snow

Randy Hicks — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:05:27 +0000

It finally snowed in Nashville while I was in town!!! It seems as though every time it would snow I would randomly be out of town, as if I leave town on a regular basis. Not to mention it doesn’t snow that much here. All the same here are a few shots! There will be more to come.

I am an “Official Nashvillian”

Randy Hicks — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:01:43 +0000

This last week I officialy moved into my new place in Nashville and that makes me an “Official Nashvillian”!!! Sarah and I got a place on the East side of Nashville in a nice two bedroom house, and we’ve been filling it up with all our little things.

So far so good, and the neighbor hood isn’t to bad either,,, although last night there was a strange guy on the sidewalk with a podium and some speakers preaching to the streets of nobody. We could hear him from 10 blocks away, and at first we thought there was a party down the street. Later we found that it really was just some crazy dude and some speakers and a light standing on the side of the street. Why?

Here are a few pics of our move Hope you enjoy!!!

And yes Bubbles helped up bring stuff too.

A little Auburn For You

Randy Hicks — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:03:26 +0000

Just a few pics from the home town

Auburn Bikers

Randy Hicks — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:21:26 +0000

Sarah and I made it to Auburn Ca and we’ve decided to go Biker!!! We just couldn’t help ourselves when we saw these bikes.

Tennessee to California

Randy Hicks — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:05:00 +0000

Sarah and I are going to California for a week!! She gets to me my family and all that goes with it!!! This should be interesting

Google Sync over MobileMe

Randy Hicks — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:05:35 +0000

Let me just start off by saying that I’ve been a loyal MobileMe user since 2001. I’m not any kind of guru, but I’ve been around long enough to notice that my MobileMe account really hasn’t been worth the $100 it used to be.

Google Sync has been out for quite a while at this point so I’m pretty sure I’m not going to say anything new so I’ll just give a quick outline of what I did and why. (not to mention, I’m really not that great of a writer.)

One thing to note, I used my visualcoma.com Google Apps Account for all of this so if you only have a gmail or simple Google account some things will be a smidg different.

A Second thing to note is that I have ditched iCal and moved to BusyCal. BusyCal has made connecting to Google so simple it’s retarded. Perhaps iCal is easy too, but the “How To” has more than one step so,, nope…

Google Sync: Setting Up Your iPhone

This step was a little confusing, and a little scary.. I synced my phone with itunes before I went any further, and I suggest you do the same. Before I continued with the full set up, I had to import my Calendars & Contacts into my Google Account. Once I had everything in my Google Account I completed all the steps for the sync including “Deleting Contact” & “Deleting Calendars”. Keep in mind that you have everything backed up on your computer and you have imported everything to Google so you technically have two backups.

I will fully admit that this was a little stressful when it came to hitting that red delete button, but once I was done and checked my Calendar and my Contacts on my phone I took a huge sigh of relief.

Here are a few factors to keep in mind.

The iPhone will only allow for one Microsoft Exchange Account, so be sure you set up this system with the Calendars that you use the most.
Back up your iPhone before you do anything!!!
You will have to Sync your Phone with your Computer one last time after you have updated your Calendars and Contacts to Google
Don’t forget to “Sync Google Contact” from iTunes/Info/Contacts
Try out BusyCal unless you just have a thing for iCal.
You can export you Mac Address book into a VCard and import it to Google Contacts.
Halfway down this page you’ll find instructions on how to sync more than one calendar using Exchange.

December In Photos

Randy Hicks — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:31:41 +0000

Here are some not so random photos from December 2009!!

My Real Pet Mouse – Ralph

Randy Hicks — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:54:20 +0000

This is Ralph my mouse, it’s actually a girl but I like Ralph for a name so I’m sticking with it. So far Ralph and I haven’t had a chance to fully hang out. I plan to get her familiar enough with me so that she’ll hand out in my jacket, but I’ve heard that mice don’t like to do that… We’ll see, I’m going to give it a shot anyway!!!

Bubbles is also kind of excited about meeting Ralph, but she hasn’t made up her mind yet. So far so good, and no major problems between the two!!