Petals for Armor

 First of all, as always, please check out (and perhaps purchase) my photos from the past couple weeks here. 

 Second, NFL football started week one... and finished it. I can't believe it. As for my fantasy prospects. I had essentially given up on this year in dynasty pre-season. I am in full tank mode, and that couldn't have been clearer in my 65-point first week. 

However, I am involved in four re-draft leagues, and I was 1-3 in week one, despite strong weeks in 3-of-the-4 leagues. One league was dismal, we won't reflect on that, however, I had solid weeks in the other three, but lost in two of them due to an unlucky matchup. I was the top scorer of the losers in both of those leagues, and had more points than some of the winners as well, so all is certainly not lost. In my main re-draft league, I made a rostering error, starting the rookie WR Jerry Jeudy over Darius Slayton, or I would've easily won. As it turned out, I lost by only a few points, as Jeudy failed to deliver for me late, though he wasn't awful, and my prospects moving forward for him are still positive. 

I do not have time for a full fledged music review for this week, but I have been listening to some albums over the COVID-19 postponement of this blog, and I will just say this about a couple of them: Taylor Swift's surprise indie-alternative record "folklore" was boring and pedestrian. However, another female star, Hayley Williams from the band Paramore, released a solo record, "Petals for Armor," which was fantastic. Several of the tracks were absolute bangers. I can't get enough. I listened to it for a week straight, and have since been coming back. It is a front-runner for my Album of the Year, if I do decide to have that this year, I may scrap it, since I didn't review many albums so far in 2020. 

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy.