Kurt Leucht’s Blog

I had an odd experience the other evening.  I was working in my garage near dusk grinding a new edge on my lawnmower blade.  It was pretty dark and the lighting in my garage is not the greatest, so I was wearing my super bright LED powered forehead light.

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After I was done, I put the lawnmower away in my shed in the backyard.  I kept the LED light on my head since it was easier than carrying a flashlight … and it is way brighter.  As I was walking in the backyard with the LED light, I kept noticing these tiny little twinkles of light all over the yard that would flash occasionally as I was walking.  There was maybe one of these odd little twinkles of light in every two square feet or so of yard.

Please comment below your guess as to what the source of the tiny little twinkles of light were in my back yard the other evening.  One guess per comment, please.  The first person to guess correctly will win a t-shirt from the Leucht Online Store.

Saw this out at work (yes, at NASA) recently.  This is funny on so many levels.

Saw this in a store recently and it stopped me in my tracks.  This is either very very right or very very wrong.  I haven’t decided yet.

My 7 year old came to me a couple days ago with an idea.  He wants to raise some money so he can buy something he saw on a TV commercial.  It’s probably that Aqua Sand stuff or maybe some sort of remote controlled flying device or whatever is being shown to kids watching Phineas and Ferb these days.  He has quite a bit of money already, but for some reason he wants to save that money and raise some new money just for this purpose.  The kid has himself on a budget already!  I’m so proud! 

So the idea that he came up with was to draw a comic strip, scan it in, print out multiple copies of it, and then hit the street and sell them to passers by.  Not a bad plan, I thought.  The only wrinkle is that our quiet little neighborhood doesn’t have a lot of passers by.  Both boys hit the streets anyway right away this morning (in their pajamas, even) and after about an hour had sold exactly one comic.  That’s not counting the few that they had sold earlier in the morning to my wife and to myself. 

So I suggested that we advertise this product to all our friends and family using the Internet.  If you’re interested in buying one of these comic strip “reproductions”, just click on the PayPal button below.  You don’t actually need a PayPal account to make a payment.  It’s super fast and super easy to send us a dollar using PayPal.

So for every one of you that sends us a dollar using PayPal, I’m going to dig into my wallet and hand one dollar directly to my seven year old.  Then I’m going to mail you one of these comic strips!  I’ll eat the PayPal fees and the cost of the stamp and envelope.  So 100% of your “donation” is going straight to my 7 year old for this purchase that he wants to make.  Also, after he makes this purchase I will email every donor a photo (or a video) of him enjoying whatever he decided to purchase with the money that you have so graciously donated to the cause!  That way you’ll all get to enjoy the fruits of your donation!

Thanks in advance for your donation to this worthy cause! 

Kurt

Okay, there’s no more denying it. I’m one of those people who like to sing. Now that hundreds of Park Avenue Baptist Church members have seen the Gloria Christmas concert that I performed in last weekend, the cat is totally out of the bag.

(Not me … Mark Wahlberg in the film Rock Star)

In case you want to witness this spectacle for yourself, I put some snippets of it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufa2s215dQ

Or you can just watch the YouTube snippets right here by clicking the play button below:

Since this performance, I’ve had lots of people come up to me and tell me that they didn’t know I could sing like that. I just tell them that I sing like this all the time along with the radio in my car, so it’s really not a big deal. I guess I’ve just never sung like this in public until now.

Thanks for all the kind words. I’m just using the gifts that God gave me, though.