Just watched 21 tonight... meh. Here's a good review http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080327/REVIEWS/873473371/1023

"Act I: M.I.T. undergrad Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) is a nerdish wicked-smart Bostonian white guy working with his best friends (a fat guy and a Persian-American guy) on a project for a robotics competition. He really needs a $300,000 scholarship to get into Harvard medical school, but he's only one of 72 talented prospects. He's recruited by Professor Rosa (Kevin Spacey) to join a secret cabal of card-counters with a scheme to hit Vegas on weekends and make a fortune. He resists. A Beautiful Girl (Kate Bosworth) attempts to woo him. He resists. OK, he really needs the money, so he joins up -- but just until he can get enough for full college tuition.

He learns the blackjack system in a montage sequence or two and passes the test. The Beautiful Girl rebuffs his advances in an attempt to maintain a strictly professional relationship.

Act II: The team goes to Vegas and the guys win. Another montage sequence? Maybe. It's getting a little fuzzy. But wait: A casino security guy named Cole Williams (Laurence Fishburne) starts to notice something -- and not a moment too soon because he's losing all his business to high-tech biometric face-recognition software. Technology! Drat! Card-counting isn't illegal, but the casinos want you to know that if you're caught doing it, they might take you down in the basement and beat the living craps out of you.

The Beautiful Girl retracts her rebuff. The Hard Rock Casino comps her a suite in which she and Ben enjoy a brief, soft-focus sex-scene montage. "It seemed too good to be true," Ben says in voiceover. "And it felt like it was never going to end." It does. Ben is no longer the same guy he was back in Boston. He loses -- money, his friends, the Beautiful Girl, his mentor, everything. Bummer.

Act III: Ben has one last chance. He makes up with Rosa and the Girl, and the team reunites for one last Big Score in Vegas. Everything works out exactly as the screenwriters have planned. The End."

The ending was super dumb...and the love story was stupid. You're in vegas surrounded by thousands of hot women that love money, and instead of being with them, you fall for this one girl that is somewhat attractive... whatever. I know this movie was just based on the book, but it left out some of the best things (i.e. hot women, rediculous costumes, and unique characters for the counters to play). Instead, almost every time they were gambling he looked like the same guy in a different suit... you'd think the pit bosses and security would catch on a lot quicker that way. Whatever... decent movie to watch, but too many of the sweet things about the real story were drastically changed or completely left out.

The vikings signed Bernard Berrian today... I'm so frickin excited. The vikings are now a legitimate playoff team. The only weekness I see is with Tjack, but he actually might not be that bad because the past two years he really hasn't had much to throw to. With him throwing to berrian, rice, and wade in the slot, he'll be much better. We'll see how it goes, but I'm very excited. As the vikings websit says, "Berri Nice!"

san fran was awesome... we did so much stuff. The weather wasn't that good, but that didn't stop us from doing anything

so I've been in daily contact with this girl via facebook messages (essentially just emails back and forth). It's a lot of mostly meaningless talk about what we've been doing each day... there's really nothing else to talk about anyways. I'll continue to progress this slowly, probably going down to visit my friends at olaf in a few weeks and gage if I should make a move or not... she's in Cali this week anyways and I've got a lot of things going on anyways.

I've got my first day of work tomorrow at Target, so I need to go to bed. Lata