Dear Diary – 11-10-2014 – Ecommerce Hell

I spent all day yesterday working on my WordPress Theme Fast News from kopatheme.com. I really wanted to use this theme because I like the newpaper style setup, but then I discovered that the theme is not Woo Commerce compatible, so I had to move on. I decided to go with the paid version of the theme I’ve used for the past 12 months, The Permanent theme
by NewWpThemes.com. The Permanent theme is Woo Commerce compatible. The Woo Commerce plugin for those who don’t know is an e-commerce plugin that is compatible with WordPress. It is suppose to give the customer a seamless shopping experience. I’m anxious to get my shop setup.

This blog at the end of the day will be strictly a music blog that covers different aspects of the music industry, but what I’m doing now is documenting my journey to get my music site up and running.  Talk to you later.

Dear Diary – 11-08-2014

I hope today is an active day for me. I plan on researching how to setup Woo Commerce on my blog. I was using Volusion to handle my Veston Guitar Tees website, but I thought their fees were too high. I’ll address that company and their prices at a later time. I need to get some good exercise in, I’m working real hard on my discipline, it’s an on-going battle. Lastly I need to get in some good practice on my guitar. I have this Nat King Cole song I want to work on, I’ll post the song later today.

Let’s get started.

Dear Diary – 11-03-14 Soundcloud

It took me most of yesterday to figure out how to post SoundCloud songs in post, so that was a lot of fun. I eneded up using the plugin provided by SoundCloud. There was another plugin called SoundCloud is Gold, but I couldn’t get it to work. I think I gave up too soon.

Sara Devine (the greatest undiscovered female vocalist ever) and my good buddy Edwin Williams both have great cuts on SoundCloud that I want to post up, so I had to figure it out.

Dear Diary 10-30-14 the Pain of it all

This morning I am in pain like a son of a B%#ch 

This damn tooth has me where I can’t think straight. Thursday is my Guitar Lesson day but it looks like I’ll have to cancel and take a trip to my dentist. These unexpected expenses are a pain in the ass. I had all of my finances figured out and there is no way I saw a $300 to $400 dentist bill coming down the pike, fast forward to right now and I can’t wait to pay these folks. Hell I can’t even think my head hurts so bad.

The positive side of this issue is that I do have the money to get the work done and when the work is complete I can return to my Guitar Mission. God is a good God. 🙂

My Diary 10-29-14 New Talent

A big part of what I want to do is introduce new talent to the world. I am well aware that Hiop Hop is king in the music world these days. That’s why we need someone to introduce the people in music who play live music and sing. These individuals are greatly unrepresented. At one point in my life I was plugged into the underground Soul scene here in Atlanta and I was surprised at all of the talented people out here in need to exposure. I don’t see it getting any better any time soon for these Artist. The radio stations seem to be 100% dedicated to the least talented. Hopefully wee can be another outlet for serious musicians, singers and music makers in general. 🙂

Yesterday was a good day in that I lived through another day, but at some point in the day I caught a tooth ache that was straight up kicking my ass 🙁 I think it happened when I flossed my teeth and went a little to far into the gum line, maybe hit a few nerves. I was like damn this hurts like hell, but no matter how much pain I’m in I still have to cook my boy something to eat. To my great surprise my son came to me and said “Dad hang in there you will be alright”, he then proceeded to fix himself something to eat on his own. Shocked the shit out of me, usually he doesn’t give a damn how I’m doing, just want to know if his food is ready. My boy is growing up. 🙂

My Diary – 10-28-14

In the spirit of blogging every day, here I go. Yesterday was a decent day for me. I drank a few too many Brewskies (beers) so when I woke up on Monday i didn’t have the get up and go that I normally have. That was a real bummer. I have become used to getting things done. I’ll use the last second lost by my Falcons as an excuse for over indulging.

Today will be all about taking care of my Son, he has a dental appointment this afternoon, so I will have to take him out of school and make sure he is OK. We are really close so I enjoy taking care of this dude.

This blog at the end of the day will reflect my interest in life, which is in a nutshell MUSIC. I plan of putting out a Album within the next 12 months. In order to put out an Album you have to do the things necessary to put the Album together. This blog will outline that process. Since I am doing it all myself it will be interesting project. I hope to do 3 Albums. This is the number one item on my Bucket List.

I’ll keep updating this blog and at some point it will all come together.

Veston 🙂

Dear Diary – 10-25-14

The My Diary portion of my blog is my attempt to get use to posting daily. It also let’s my announce what problems I am having and what solution I come up with. Yesterday I was trying to post some new pictures in the Gorgeous Girls section of my blog, but I couldn’t get a space between the two pictures. I will work on this problem today and report back with my solution. I’m going to post the pictures anyway, cause they look so good. 🙂

I will also change my template this weekend and start the customization process.

 

My Diary – 10-24-14 Not a Bad Day

Well it’s 6:14 eastern and I’m up and ready to start my day. I made it to the gym yesterday and had a great workout. I think I can get a little more intense, but that will take some time. 😥

Yesterday I did find a solution to my meal planning dilemma and that has me excited. I have an 11 year old son and one of the main problem I have every day is trying to figure out what to cook.  I’m always concerned if we are eating the same thing too ofter. Do I have the supplies to make certain meals etc. I have always needed my meals outlined for all 30 days of the week,  so I can just do it. All I did was make a 5 week Calender using Microsoft Word and plug in meals for each day. My goal is to have diverse meals and variety. I need to keep it healthy as you can for a 11 year old but tasty at the same time. My menu will be kind of bland at the beginning, but I will add more recipes each month until I get  a great mix.

I found and purchased a new theme for my blog that I will debut in a few days. I’m excited about my new look. You can get an idea what I’m going to do at this link Fast News Theme.   The theme is free, but I paid $45 for the premium version, I think it’s going to work out fine for what I’m trying to do.

Talk to you later. 🙂

Dear Diary – Good Morning

Good Morning World, it’s 5:54 am and I’m just getting up. Getting ready to do what I call my morning grind. My grind  consist of sending out emails to all of my customers from my other websites, checking on my money to make sure I still have some and going through my ever expanding to do list, that never shrinks.

Yesterday was not a good day as far as getting things done, I didn’t exercise so I feel bad about that. I didn’t put in the proper time working with my Son and his school work, so I’m not happy with that either. I hope to do better today.

Later today I plan to blog about what some of my goals are with this blog, see you later 🙂

Grand Re-Opening

Doing a blog is hard work. You have to do the work to get it started in the face of having no traffic. In other words you are talking to yourself. I guess that why I created the diary portion of my Blog.
Yesterday was my first day of getting back into the gym. I do a lot of walking these days, but I don’t feel truly healthy unless I’m lifting weights. Now I’m getting old so I don’t do heavy weights like I use to in the past, but nothing makes you feel better and increases your overall discipline like taking care of yourself.

So I hearby designate this day the new begining of Veston’s Blog 🙂

Dear Diary

Today was kind of a bummer, I didn’t really get a darn thing done. I think the culprit may have been the four Pints of Beer I drank during the Miami Heat – San Antonio Spurs game last night. I let myself down. 😥

Dear Diary

Today I’m adding a section called DEAR DIARY. This is my way of commenting on my blog every day. We all know that the hardest thing to do when you create a blog is posting daily. Especially when you have no audience and no one is reading what you post. If you are lucky you will get traffic in time, if not hopefully you have a niche that makes you happy and helps you maintain interest. What I plan on doing is commenting on my quest to Learn to Play Guitar, start eating healthy, exercise on a daily basis, lose weight, learn all of the software packages necessary to record some songs I’m working on and finally to be a decent person.

Today I did get out and do some walking, I managed to walk for 60 minutes. It was 60 minutes of hell but I can’t complain. I really miss running, but since I messed up my knees that long time hobby and habit is no longer an option for me. I did practice my Guitar today, so that is always positive

Thanks 🙂