welcome to Steemit , I hope your journey exceeds all your expectations .
Make sure you use your posting key to log into steemit and not you master key .
if you have any questions I be happy to answer them . you can look at my Blog to check how I assist newbies . I don't mean for this to be a spam you will get enough of them .
Again welcome . Nice to have someone from L.A. here 😎