The Ricker likes his house (and other's houses) dark.
Behind velcro, I think the Ricker's favorite invention is the dimmer switch, which he has installed on every possible light in the house. He even splices dimmers into lamps that have switches on the plugs. He dims the kitchen lights and the bathroom lights, which may explain his preference for raw steaks and mustache grooming. He calls this dimness "atmosphere."
No room can ever have enough atmosphere for the Ricker. He is infamous for unscrewing light bulbs in restaurants, or asking the waiter or manager to dim the lights to accommodate him. He complains that if they keep the restaurant bright, he'll leave and go elsewhere--and he has. This is one of the reasons I'm sure that waiters or chefs took some "creative liberties" in serving or preparing my food. He's also dimmed lights at friend's houses and cocktail parties. And don't leave him alone in a house with no dimmers. The Ricker just runs to the hardware store to buy dimmers and install them for you (as he did in my condo in Arizona).
The Ricker uses other lights to create this atmosphere at his house. In addition to the volume of Christmas lights (which are up from mid-November until early January), he keeps some permanent decorative lights up all year. The Ricker was an early adopter of the chili pepper lights, which stayed up all year all over the house, hung around doorways, on his fake cacti and on a 17-foot dead, dried century plant shoot. He also held on to his beloved chili pepper lights too long, though he finally replaced the old strands (which were probably a fire hazard anyway) with new strings of purple twinkle lights. When the purple lights started burning out due to constant (nightly) usage, he joined the 21st century with some small, round globe lights.
In fact, just the other day, the Ricker emailed me pictures of the globe lights reflecting on the window, as the sun was setting. Notice the light is also dimmed. This is a perfect Ricker trifecta of ambiance, and I received six different pictures showing the exact same thing from different angles.
Behind velcro, I think the Ricker's favorite invention is the dimmer switch, which he has installed on every possible light in the house. He even splices dimmers into lamps that have switches on the plugs. He dims the kitchen lights and the bathroom lights, which may explain his preference for raw steaks and mustache grooming. He calls this dimness "atmosphere."
No room can ever have enough atmosphere for the Ricker. He is infamous for unscrewing light bulbs in restaurants, or asking the waiter or manager to dim the lights to accommodate him. He complains that if they keep the restaurant bright, he'll leave and go elsewhere--and he has. This is one of the reasons I'm sure that waiters or chefs took some "creative liberties" in serving or preparing my food. He's also dimmed lights at friend's houses and cocktail parties. And don't leave him alone in a house with no dimmers. The Ricker just runs to the hardware store to buy dimmers and install them for you (as he did in my condo in Arizona).
The Ricker uses other lights to create this atmosphere at his house. In addition to the volume of Christmas lights (which are up from mid-November until early January), he keeps some permanent decorative lights up all year. The Ricker was an early adopter of the chili pepper lights, which stayed up all year all over the house, hung around doorways, on his fake cacti and on a 17-foot dead, dried century plant shoot. He also held on to his beloved chili pepper lights too long, though he finally replaced the old strands (which were probably a fire hazard anyway) with new strings of purple twinkle lights. When the purple lights started burning out due to constant (nightly) usage, he joined the 21st century with some small, round globe lights.
In fact, just the other day, the Ricker emailed me pictures of the globe lights reflecting on the window, as the sun was setting. Notice the light is also dimmed. This is a perfect Ricker trifecta of ambiance, and I received six different pictures showing the exact same thing from different angles.
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