Still watching the Olympics, wondering why Finland, which is covered 12 months of the year with snow and ice, can't field a decent ice hockey team, or downhill, or cross country ski team. Finland should take advantage of its most abundant resource, that same resource that the rest of us look forward to until it arrives and then can hardly wait for it to leave. In Finland, the snow never leaves. Why don't they take advantage?

And why can't they figure out a way to get the cross on their flag upright? Couldn't they have re-figured it so it fit the right way up? And only two colors. Or one color if you believe that white is the absence of color.

And what is with the spelling of most Finish names? Speech therapy must be a really big career opportunity in Finland. All those double vowels and consonants. When you pronounce a Finnish name you emphasize the first syllable and then keep making mumbling sounds until you think the word is finished. The Finns love their abundance of the following double letters: a, i, k, p.

Example: Valiippaakkanan.

Valiippaakkanan is a family name. A last name. You probably figured that out. It would be rally silly to have Valiippaakkanan as a first name. Even the Finns like their children better than hanging that handle on them.

After watching the nations of the Winter Olympic Games I have come to an interesting understanding of history and an AHA! moment.

My version: Finland and Slovakia were waging war against each other. At the peace talks, after both sides tired of the battles that were raging, a pact was signed to decide who got what. And so, the Finns went home with most of the vowels and Slovakia won the consonants j and z and vowed to use them often and together. The Finns, for their part, also pledged to show off their wealth in vowels by doubling them, as if the vowels were stuttering. And they all lived happily ever after.

And that's what I think about it.