It's about Redundancy, noob...

It's a term you don't think much about until it walks up and smacks you in the back of the head.
Take this morning, when I woke up at 4 and went out to check out the sunrise from a different perspective. Over the years, I've gotten some beautiful sunrises from the front yard on Scollard Road. Today I walked down to the West Grand Ave side of the Pier to photograph a different view of Saco Bay. As I composed my first shot, the camera shut down on me. I tried to turn it back on, but the batteries were dead. I swapped them out, not realizing that the rechargeables I had in the bag were also dead. Thus, I packed up my gear and began the walk back to my home to a growing palette of yellows, oranges pinks and blues. As I continued my walk, I watched as an entire flock of Canadian Geese, in v-formation, flew before my eyes ( apicture I will watch patiently for in the coming weeks). The cloud cover this morning was made of appoximately 10 horizontally banded streams in what can best be described as an opened clutch fan held before you at about a ten degree angle, with the convergance point to the right of the skyline. It was a beautiful sunrise.
From it, I learned to have a backup of a backup with regards to my batteries.