things i did today

• Planted seeds.
  
• Stumped an IRS help desk person.
  
• Extracted graphs from the 2000 US Census tables. (They have fairly nice web-based interactive map generation utilities — except that they give you broken PDFs — but they don't do beans for you if you want histograms, despite histograms being the most sensible way to present an awful lot of the data.)
  
• Walked 1.1 miles. (Because I cleverly got on a bus going in the wrong direction when it was time to go home, and then it was faster to walk home than wait half an hour for the bus going in the correct direction.)