Right now I’m sitting outside a grocery store in Austin. There’s a flock of noisy, whistling blackbirds in the tree above me (they look like grackles but don’t sound like the kind we have in MN.) Behind me is a crowd of little kids discussing some arcane card-game (maybe Yu-Gi-Oh.) Off to my right is a playground full of little yelling kids. My laptop is plugged into an oak tree which has a power outlet on its base for some reason.