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It sucks that I missed out on the Blog a Day, though I'm sure I wouldn't have been able to keep up with it. 

I'm checking in to let everyone know about my progress, which unfortunately isn't very much. 

With the recent release of Payday 2 on PS Plus, I've had some old friends up and ready to play the game. I've had a few hours with Yarger as well, which resulted in quite a bit of leveling. I thank him for letting me hold back the team during those missions lol. I've still been playing my first runthrough of Borderlands, which is a lot of fun and while the comedy may be on the too wacky side, it fits in really well with the tone of the world. 

I picked up Thief on release this week, but haven't had a chance to play it. Frankly, I haven't been able to focus very much on games lately. I don't quite know why. I'll try to work past that and post some reviews of games later on, hopefully a few in the month of March. Plus, I finally got a copy of Jeanne D'Arc to play on the Vita, so I really should crack down on my gameplay.

I'm writing this as I have Hannibal season one playing in the background. I've seen the episodes multiple times, but can't get enough of the pretty bleak tone and disturbing visuals. The second season starts in just a few hours and I'm damn excited about that. 

I'm currently reading Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich. It's a humorous look at what being "middle-class" means in America. It shouldn't be of course, as the author stays in different cities and lives on minimum wage. There's some sobering facts and details in the book, which occurred before the recent economic crash and policy changes. I'd hate to think what it would be like now. There's a lot of tragedy here, as there would be with any true look at the economy, but as I said before, the observational humor that Ehrenreich infuses into the narrative helps to relieve the spiritual pain.