On Chocolate And Allergies

One of the things that is usually a low-grade annoyance but becomes a greater one at this time of year is chocolate. Now, my Wonderful Husband has a peanut/tree nut allergy, which is one of those ones that really doesn't come in the version "mild." Thus I have long since given up Thai food, peanut butter sandwiches, and have to brush my teeth after having some M&Ms. Because, really, accidentally poisoning him is Not Good. He will not get sick; he will die.

Something like 95% of chocolate manufacturers put a "may contain traces of" or "manufactured on shared equipment with" warnings on their products. Which, really, I appreciate. However, it occurs to me that someone, somewhere out there, surely has had to have had the brainstorm that says "hey, people with nut allergies might like to eat chocolate too!" and set up a nut-free factory.

Apparently not.

We've managed to find a brand of chocolate chips (Smart and Final's house brand, for reference) that we can use for chocolate chip cookies. However, Nestle's? Out. Ghiradelli's? Out. All those gourmet single-source chocolate bars with add-ins like ginger or cocoa nibs or mint that are all over the stores these days? Out.

It makes making truffles or even chocolate cake very difficult. Grr. Stupid manufacturers.

Liek OMG Squeee~!

Out of curiosity, I just checked the download stats for the most recent episode of Ultraman Moebius that my group has subbed and released. At 23:34, we're at 214.

Over two hunded downloads in one day! Happy~!

(Yes, I know this makes me a dork. And, yes, I know that our total downloads for each episode only come up to around 600. Obscure hobby and all that.)

Spent yesterday writing and doing a little bit of coding. Added "Soldier" and "Cow Tipping" to my website and put them in the queue for ff.net. (I'm a freak; I have a schedule for ff.net releases. It involves dumping a whole lot of "ready" fics into my account there at once and then releasing one every other day.) Also wrote about 18K on an as-yet-untitled G1 post-series story. I've about gotten through Jazz's explanation of the movie events... it's always fun to write him, particularly when doing it without contracting his words. (I need to go through Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and make his speech there more legible. After I finish Twin Terrors; only two more chapters to that and I want a minumum of WIPs going at once.) I probably need to rewatch the Headmasters episodes since my recollection of them is imperfect. Need to rewatch the Return of Optimus Prime episodes too, I suppose.