Backups.
I was just thinking, even though being without a headset and having to type my blog wasn't a total disaster, more of an annoyance, okay, an extreme annoyance. It was a reminder of how important some of the systems in the camper are to my everyday life, and how trying to live without them would make my life extremely uncomfortable. Pretty much by accident, I ended up with redundancy for some systems, and maybe I should look deeper into having backups for everything.
Without realizing it, I ended up with two separate battery banks. Two separate solar systems, with panels on the roof, deployable panels on the ground, and two separate solar controllers.
I also ended up with two inverters, so I have two separate inverter systems, with one system that is battery-bank-charged by the roof panels, and the other system charged by the ground-deployed panels.
Another thing that I depend on heavily, and probably need a backup for, is a trackball I use instead of a mouse. I started out using a mouse as everybody does; but circumstances caused me to be forced into using a trackball, and after getting the hang of it, which did take some time, the trackball is so much better, so much easier, and so much faster, that if I have to use a mouse it's akin to me typing instead of dictating in terms of speed and usability.
There are some things that would be hard to duplicate, such as my refrigerator, but I could rush out and buy an ice chest. Cooking would be difficult if my stove went on the fritz, but I could always make a campfire or eat cold food.
But I think I learned a lesson from this headset debacle: I've basically got my life down to things I absolutely have to have and very few things I can do without, so having a backup for some things just makes sense.
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