Goines On: What calendar companies don’t want you to know

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After the business with his wife about reusing the 2019 Kew Botanical calendar, Goines looked for the table he had constructed eight or so years earlier. He had made it only for the years 2001-2028, so it didn’t even show when the Kew calendar could be reused. He decided to update it.
    He extended it into the 22^nd century, so it could illustrate what would happen with the year 2100, which wouldn’t be a leap year, since the extra day for leap years every four years over-corrected a little bit and had to be adjusted every 400 years.
    When he showed it to Mrs. Goines (and their son, who was visiting for a few days) they edited the table for him and suggested some explanations at the top, to help people understand what the table was saying and how they could make use of it. Their son even suggested a title: “What Calendar Companies Don’t Want You to Know.”
    Goines incorporated their suggestions and even added the years 1973-2000, because people might have calendars from those years and need to know what years they could be reused for. During Mrs. Goines’ second review, she suggested he include an example as well. He was thrilled at how much her and their son’s suggestions were improving the table and could hardly wait to get back to his computer. Some final tweaks, including what borders to include or not include, and Goines thought he had it.

    Working on the table was a lot of fun for Goines. He hoped he would live many more years – if he could continue to do fun stuff like this.

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