Nonetheless, I’m re-evaluating some of my recent decisions.

Sometimes you have to just sit down and think over the things you’ve done, and the choices you’ve made, and try to figure if maybe you could have made some smarter decisions. That’s how you learn, you know? It’s how you grow. It’s part of being a man.

So I’m doing a little post-game analysis on this past week or so. Because I feel like I might be in a better situation now if I’d played things a little differently. And I want to take responsibility for that.

OK, first, though, I do NOT regret my decision to file a grievance with HR over Stacie’s repeated disparaging remarks about professional wrestling. It may have seemed “trivial” to them, but when she calls it “fake,” she’s insulting my beliefs, and that shouldn’t be tolerated in the workplace. I’m glad I took a stand on that.

Neither would I take a do-over on Monday night’s dinner out. The food was delicious, the prices were affordable, and there’s no way to know for sure my, uh, shall-we-say “slight gastrointestinal malfunction” was definitely caused by Chef Cletus’s scrumptious crab-slaw buffet.

Also, I feel like buying this Vtech five-handset phone was a solid decision. No regrets there, definitely. It’s got DECT 6.0 digital technology for top-rate sound quality, security and range. It doesn’t interfere with my wireless network or other electronic gizmos. It encrypts my calls, which, as a privacy freak, I find reassuring, even if I don’t understand in the least how it works. I can use the various handsets as intercoms between each other. And it’s got a handy, easy-to-use digital answering system so I don’t miss messages.

Or anyway I wouldn’t miss messages, if anyone ever called with any. But no one has for several days now, not friends, not family, not co-workers, no one. Which brings me to the one recent decision I think I would make differently, given the chance:

In retrospect, “Sexy Dora the Explorer” was a poor choice of Halloween costume.

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