Photographing the Eclipse (not)

Well, my camera decided that when it's auto-focusing, it needs to wander all over the sky like a roving eye. A camera equivalent of Damn You AutoCorect moment.  No way to stop its inexorable grinding. Like teeth. Mine. The moon swinging on a gravity-defying pendulum, the camera lens refocusing and grunting its way through fresh sets of  batteries. I gave up. So did all my batteries.