What on Earth is THAT?

In case the dead silence hasn’t been enough of a clue, I’ll spell it out: it has been a rough week at Casa Aztec, though things are finally looking up (among other things, it’s finally fucking Friday! YAY!) ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ A bike update: I mentioned at the end of this post that the rear tire exploded–as I was riding at a good 13mph too–a couple of weeks ago. A few days after the fact, I realized a bit of metal had embedded itself into the tire–ergo, explosion: I am not sure the image conveys the scale very well, but that visible bit of metal is perhaps a half inch by an inch, and oh, about one sixteenth thick (more or less 1 cm by 2.4 cm, and about 1 mm thick). For two weeks I was both sad and bike-less 1, and then today my bike was restored to me in all its glory! In the process of changing the tire, this is the object they pulled from the sad rubber remnants of the previous one: This photograph doesn’t convey the size of the thing very well–since there’s nothing in the background to…