I noticed when I was sleeping in late with my cold (which is almost all gone now, thanks!) that I get a lot of telemarketing calls during the day. I assume this happens while I’m at work too (though I suppose the super-spy agents may have their satellites trained on me to see when I am near my home phone), so now I know why I get so many calls on Saturday mornings. The autodial software, having determined that I’m never home during their business hours on weekdays, puts me in the “let’s blast her out of bed on Saturday morning” queue. If there’s anything worse than getting woken up too early on a weekend morning, it’s getting woken up by someone trying to sell you something over the phone. And I keep getting duplicate calls from people trying to sell me the same thing someone else already yakked at me about. That really bugs me. Someone’s either writing buggy autodial software or the humans aren’t updating the database with the info that I’m not interested. Readers who remember my previous telemarketer rant will note that I have pretty much given up on my “just hang up if there’s a pause” strategy, and, indeed, the autodialers are getting smarter. Not a surprise.