Sunday, 10/26/2025

🧳 Affirm due!

📋 Tasks

  • Pay Affirm #money #done

🍲 Vegan Instant Pot Chana Masala

Ingredients

  • 3 (15-ounce / 440g) cans of chickpeas OR 12 ounces (1 1/2 cups) dried chickpeas
  • 3 tablespoons coconut oil or neutral cooking oil
  • 2 teaspoons black mustard seeds
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cumin seeds
  • 2 medium onions, finely diced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons freshly minced or grated ginger
  • 1-2 serrano peppers*, minced
  • 3 bay leaves
Ground Spices
  • 2 teaspoons ground coriander
  • 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  • 1/2 - 1 teaspoon Indian red chili powder (use less for a less spicy version)
  • 1 tablespoon garam masala
  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 1/2 of a 28-oz can whole peeled tomatoes, crushed with your hands
  • 1 1/2 cups (360 mL) vegetable broth or water (3/4 cup if using canned chickpeas)
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves, roughly chopped - For serving: Basmati rice and/or Indian flatbread

Preparation

  1. If you are using dried chickpeas, place them in a large bowl and soak in cold water overnight or for 8 hours. Drain, rinse, and set aside. If you are using canned chickpeas, open the cans, drain and rinse.
  2. On the Instant Pot, select the Sauté setting. Add the oil and once it is shimmering, add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds. They might sputter a bit so stand back. After 30 seconds, add the diced onion and cook, stirring frequently until the onion starts to brown, 6-7 minutes.
  3. Add the garlic, ginger, Serrano peppers, and bay leaves and stir to combine until garlic is golden brown, 1-2 minutes.
  4. Add the Ground Spices and stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds. You may need to add a tablespoon of water to prevent the mixture from drying out and/or burning.
  5. Stir in the salt, hand-crushed tomatoes, canned or soaked dried chickpeas, and vegetable broth or water. Stir well to combine. Select the Cancel setting.
  6. Secure the Instant Pot lid and set the Pressure Release valve to Sealing. Select the Pressure Cook setting on the Instant Pot and set to high pressure for 8 minutes (for canned chickpeas) or 35 minutes (for soaked, dried chickpeas).
  7. Once the timer is up, allow the Instant Pot to come to a natural pressure release. It should take 10-15 minutes.
  8. If it is not as thick as you'd like, turn on the Sauté setting and let the mixture rapidly simmer to cook off some liquid.
  9. Open the pot and stir in the lemon juice and cilantro, and season to taste. Serve over Basmati rice and/or with Indian flatbread.

    For a mild version, omit the seeds and membranes and use just one pepper (or use a jalapeño pepper). For a moderately spicy version, use 2 peppers and omit the seeds and membranes. For a spicy version, use two peppers and keep half or most of the seeds intact.

    RainbowPlantLife

Tags

  • money
  • done

Monday, 10/27/2025

⏰ Meetings

  • 08:00 🏋️ Workout with Kassidy
  • 13:30 CLD120 (33610)

📋 Tasks

  • 🚩 Have all students logged into Canvas? #cld110 #cld120 #todo
  • Read ADA information on CTL. #ADA #todo
  • Edgar Chimal Hernandez hasn't logged into the AWS LMS. Call him! #CLD120 #todo
  • Update Knowledge Check 2 #CLD120 #todo

📝 Notes

🫘 Instant Pot Lentils

Ingredients

  • 2 c. green lentils
  • 3 1/2 c. water or broth
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. cumin
  • 1 tsp. thyme
  • 2 gloves garlic

Preparation

  1. Combine ingredients in the Instant pot.
  2. Pressure cook for 12 minutes.
  3. Natural pressure release

Tags

  • cld110
  • cld120
  • todo
  • ada

Tuesday, 10/28/2025

💳 CapitalOne MasterCard due!

⏰ Meetings

📋 Tasks

  • Pay CapitalOne #money #done

Tags

  • rha
  • money
  • done

Wednesday, 10/29/2025

⏰ Meetings

  • 08:00 🏋️ Workout with Kassidy
  • 13:30 CLD120 (33610)

CLD110 Module 10 Knowledge Check

Question 1

Which of the following AWS tools helps your application scale up or down based on demand? (Choose two.)

  • Availability Zones
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Elastic Load Balancing
  • AWS Config

Question 2

Which service would you use to send alerts based on Amazon CloudWatch alarms?

  • Amazon SNS
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • AWS Trusted Advisor
  • Amazon Route 53

Question 3

Which of the following are characteristics of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling? (Choose three.)

  • Only supports dynamic scaling
  • Responds to changing conditions by adding or terminating instances
  • Delivers push notifications
  • Launches instances from a specified AMI
  • Enforces a minimum number of running Amazon EC2 instances

Question 4

Which of the following must be configured on an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to expect incoming traffic?

  • A port
  • A network interface
  • A listener
  • An Interface

Question 5

Which of the following elements are used to create an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launch configuration? (Choose three.)

  • Amazon AMI
  • Load balancer
  • Instance type
  • VPC and subnets
  • Amazon EBS volumes

Question 6

Which of the following services can help you collect important metrics from Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 instances?

  • Amazon CloudFront
  • Amazon CloudSearch
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Question 7

Which of the following are elements of an Auto Scaling group? (Choose three.)

  • Minimum size
  • Health checks
  • Desired capacity
  • Maximum size

Question 8

There is an audit at your company and they need to have a log of all access to AWS resources in the account. Which of the following services can assist in providing these details?

  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS CloudTrail
  • Amazon EC2
  • Amazon SNS

Question 9

In Elastic Load Balancing, when the load balancer detects an unhealthy target, which of the following are true? (Choose three.)

  • Stops routing traffic to that target
  • Triggers an alarm
  • Resumes routing traffic when it detects that the target is healthy again
  • Resumes routing traffic when manually restarted
  • Routes traffic to a healthy target

Question 10

What are the three types of load balancers that Elastic Load Balancing offers?

  • Internet load balancer
  • Application load balancer
  • Network load balancer
  • Compute load balancer
  • Classic load balancer
  • Auto scaling load balancer

Thursday, 10/30/2025

🤖 ChatGPT Plus due!

Friday, 10/31/2025

👻 Halloween
💰 MCC Paycheck

⏰ Meetings

  • 10:00 Open Enrollment Town Hall

👻 Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra – Chiller

Tracklist

  1. Opening Sequence
  2. Overture To The Phantom Of The Opera
  3. Night On Bald Mountain
  4. Danse Macabre
  5. March To The Scaffold From Symphonie Fantastique
  6. Pandemonium (Scene 19) From The Damnation Of Faust
  7. In The Hall Of The Mountain King From Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1
  8. Synthesizer Effects
  9. Theme From The Twilight Zone Composed By – Marius Constant +12,000 Volts
  10. The Bride Of Frankenstein
    • Prelude
    • Minuet
    • Pastorale & March
  11. Sleigh Ride From The Devil And Daniel Webster
  12. Three Selections From Psycho
    • Prelude
    • The Mad House
    • Murder
  13. Overture To Sleuth Composed By – John Addison
  14. Television Noise
  15. The Light From Poltergeist
  16. Super Sleuth From Without A Clue
  17. Funeral March Of A Marionette (Theme From Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Saturday, 11/01/2025

🏡 Rent due!

⏰ Meetings

  • 07:30 ChatMCC
  • 13:00 Georgio Cocchiarella

📋 Tasks

  • Order MAX-T Replacement Shaver Head #todo

📝 Notes

Creamy Cucumber Tomato Sandwich

Ingriedents

  • 6 slices multi-grain sandwich bread
  • 1 container low-fat plain Greek yogurt 5.3 oz / 150 grams
  • 1 tbsp dijon mustard 15 grams
  • 2 cloves garlic (finely grated)
  • 1 tsp dried dill 1 gram
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice 15 ml
  • 1 cup finely chopped English cucumber 150 grams
  • 1/3 cup chopped red onion 50 grams
  • 2 tbsp chopped parsley 8 grams
  • 1 large tomato (thinly sliced)
  • sea salt & black pepper

Preparation

  1. Add the yogurt into a large bowl, along with the dijon mustard, grated garlic, dried dill, lemon juice, and season with salt & pepper, whisk together.
  2. Add the chopped cucumber into the bowl with the yogurt sauce, along with the chopped red onion, and chopped parsley, mix together.
  3. Lightly toast the slices of sandwich bread, then add the creamy cucumber mixture over a slice of toast, top it off with some slices of tomato, season with salt & pepper, add some more of the creamy cucumber mixture to the top slice of toast, and place it over the sandwich, enjoy!

    Spain on a Fork

Tags

  • todo

Sunday, 11/02/2025

📝 Notes

🥔 Instant Pot Baked Potato

  1. Clean one medium potato.
  2. Piece with fork on all sides.
  3. Brine for 1 or 2 minutes.
  4. Pressure cook for 20 minutes.
  5. Natural pressure release for 10 minutes

🎺 Harry James & His Big Band – Still Harry After All These Years

Tracklist

  1. Caravan
  2. Satin Doll
  3. Roll 'Em
  4. Sanford And Son
  5. Moonglow / Theme From "Picnic"
  6. Take The "A" Train
  7. Undecided
  8. Ciao
  9. Dance
  10. Help Me Make It Through The Night