Calendars

It is a new year, so I figure I should say something about what bothers me about calendars. Specifically, those [insert whatever here]-a-day calendars. They promise a Far Side cartoon, a Monty Python trivia fact, an insult, a German phrase, a Bible verse, a kitten, a recipe, a redneck joke, a useless trivia "fact", or whatever variety calendar you bought or had bought for you every single day.

Well it is a big fat lie I tell you, because they always combine saturday and sunday. It isn't a "word a day" calendar, since there are not 365 (or 366 on leap years) nuggets of wisdom contained within.

Why is that? The weekend is when I have the most time to absorb whatever secret knowledge the calendar has to give, yet I am cheated and only get one day. Since when does a year have only 313 days? (Jan 1 was a sunday this year, so they were forced to give me a sunday separated from a saturday - of this year).

Don't tell me it is to save paper. If that were true, why are there at least 14 blank sheets at the end of the calendar?