It's impossible to say. I regret some decisions I've made--mainly chances I didn't take--that I theorize might have improved my life (probably wishful thinking), but for all I know maybe things would have come out worse. Butterfly effect and everything. I mean.. I live in a house, I have all the food and gadgets I need or event want, I'm in good health, my loved ones are still alive, etc. Things could be worse.

The things I was so close to getting, I wanted/needed so badly that I literally can't imagine how getting them would have affected me, even though they weren't particularly enabling things, just experiences.

When I make a bad decision I often find myself imagining what would have happened if I'd choses otherwise and it usually leads me to a conclusion where making the better decision ultimately wouldn't have helped me anyway. Maybe it's just convenient thinking, but it's like I'm magnetically attracted to those lines of thought and they give me comfort.

There have been better shows, but of the ones that are still going my favorite is a toss-up between Family Guy and South Park. Unlike Family Guy the style of South Park is a little much to take in in large doses, but it's more inspired/genius than Family Guy. I have no idea what my favorite episode from either of those is. I've seen way too many, many of them were pretty good, and I'd have to think for days to remember half of them. =P I do remember at the time thinking it was one of the funniest things I ever saw when Chef's TV was so sophisticated he pressed the wrong sequence of buttons and it transformed into a robot and started walking around killing people. =P My sense of humor is probably different now though.

Some of my go-to items have been: Starbucks Doubleshots, various sodas like Vanilla Coke and Cherry Dr Pepper, more recently flavored sparkling water like La Croix or Bubly, Boar's Head dill pickle spears, Vlasic Zesty Dill pickle stackers, Pepperoni Pizza Hot Pockets with the garlic buttery crust, Cedar Bay Cedar Planked Hickory Maple Atlantic Salmon, carbonated fruit juice in cans (like watermelon for example), white grape peach juice, white grape peach cherry juice, concord grape black cherry juice, pear nectar, pineapple coconut nectar, Ragu tomato, garlic & onion spaghetti sauce, Classico basil pesto, Classico sun-dried tomato pesto, radishes, California rolls, sea breeze salad, calamari, strawberry eclair ice cream bars, triple peanut butter cup ice cream, chocolate trinity ice cream, Amy's microwaveable dishes, et al.

Nowadays it's pretty much just Starbucks Doubleshots, Bubly's, and Amy's.