I am agonizing over a decision...  I shouldn't be, but I am. 

I feel like my blog need a giant make-over.  And so I have two options. 

• I can work with the current theme... Shifter...  It has been very good for me for quite a while.  I know that it is quite flexible, and I can make it do a lot of things.  But, I would basically need to re-work all of the widgets and elements... 
  
• There is a theme I really want to play with.  I actually wrote about it a couple of days ago, and I have been playing with it on another WP installation.  It would also require a LOT of work. 
  

The good part is that if I wanted to switch back, the settings would remain... I would be able to move back to the current theme easily. 

Re-working the current theme would probably be 6-8 hours... and would hardly be noticeable to the casual reader/viewer.  It would be cleaner, but it would not be dramatic at all. 

Setting up the new theme would probably be 10-12 hours... but it would be a dramatic difference.  It would not look like a tweak at all, but would look almost like a new website.  And to get the old posts in shape for the new theme will take weeks... 

Take a look... 

Here is the current site.  Here is the possibility...

What do you think?

***Update***  I have made a couple of changes.  To start with, the themes for the two sites are swapped.  I am now running Ikarus on LaneBailey.com and Shifter on BaileyServices.com.  BaileyServices should be loaded out with content soon.  Also, I am using Shifter in its "Portal" mode as opposed to "Blog" as it was on LaneBailey.com.  Also, when I started having to move widgets, it became MUCH less reversible.  I did save the file set-up so I could switch back in an hour or so.