happy halloween. please enjoy this lovely picture of my great pumpkin from 2 years ago.

its rainy out. its been raining here for 4 days now. we needed it, but 4 days of rain seriously begins to affect my mood. its also a slow day at work today. i think i will use the time to work on some photos i took at the annapolis boat show earlier this month and try to put together the new blog theme. between the house and school and work, i havent really had much time for…well, anthing. so i am also using this time to catch up on some blog reading. i read a post over at superhero that caught my attention. the question asked is: “what would you do if you knew you couldnt fail?”

if i knew i couldnt fail, i would quit my job, sell my house and leave for europe. i would write. travel the world. take photos. sail the atlantic. love completely and without fear. pursue only things that are important or beautiful to me. commit for life to someone who deserves that from me. make every decision without second guessing myself. and grow older peacefully, without concern for my future.

some of those dreams i will accomplish, some i will try and fail at, others i will never even attempt. the reality is that you can fail, but you cant always fear failure. some things are worth the risk. others just are not.

If you get a chance, pop over and read some of the responses left in the comments. Reading other peoples dreams inspires us to dream ourselves. The question and its answers, lead to a very simply but often overlooked observation that andrea brings up in the next post – “The things that scare us are often what bring us the most joy.”

Borrowed this from Consume

The top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users. Leave comments or repost to your blog and link back: Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights

The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby-Dick

Ulysses
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner (read his newer book – wasn’t impressed)

Mrs. Dalloway

Great Expectations
American Gods
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver

Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West

The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World

The Fountainhead

Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984*
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbevilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels*
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners*

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Need to find my copy and finish it.
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye

On the Road

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid*
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit

White Teeth
Treasure Island

David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

quick update: i have successfully upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.3 today. Youll notice some missing files and images for a while as Im still working through some upgrade casualties. Hopefully by next week I’ll also have a new

anyone who has suggestions for new theme, please feel free to drop them.