I still am a computer kid but I miss the days where one could buy their own components and build their own pc from scratch. Now though, laptops have all but killed off desktops!
And laptops cannot be self-assembled in a chassis the same as desktops used to be! They are all pre-fabricated on...
Be it SSD (Solid State Drive) or conventional "slower" Hard Disk Drives, how much space do you normally use / require for writing your novel? 128 GB? 256 GB? 512 GB? 1 TB (1000 GB) ?
Which part of the world are you in? One of the high latitude areas or near the tropics? :geek::)
I'm at the tropics myself and we're having unusually rainy weather for this time of the year!
I heard that scientists found evidence recently that there wasn't any asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs but that there were multiple volcanoes and earthquakes which led to rapid climate change. Possibly the same thing you described happened, a cloud of dust encircled the planet blocking...