Thanksgiving Eve Eve

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went to bed at 6:00 East Coast time…3:00 West Coast time…and woke up at 7:30 West Coast time…4 and half hours sleep…what?…said to myself…”self, go back to sleep!”…woke up again at 10:00…committed to going with my sister to her accountant…at 11:00…to straighten out a problem from 2021…what?…all is well…will be taken care of by her able accountant…I jumped into the shower…got myself together by the time the cleaning crew were at the door…and we were off to the accountant…on the way, she spoke to her friend Sharon who was on her way to Costco…could she get anything for her…Candy said sure…a pumpkin pie…have you ever seen a Costco pie?…it’s huge…and easily feed 12 pie lovers with a hefty slice…how do they do it?…they must sell hundreds of pies, especially the week of holiday…like Thanksgiving…we’re thankful for Costco pies!…I asked her if she could get me some Rose’s Lime Juice…I make myself a Gimlet…with vodka or gin…Doris turned me on to Gimlets…another thing to be thankful for Doris…we made our way to Janae’s…she lives a stone’s throw to the Hilsdale Shopping Center…in High School we would drive to Hillsdale for an ice cream sundae of milk shake…it’s gone now…and I don’t remember the name except that it was in Hillsdale…sort of like a Mel’s Drive-in…just a fond memory…it’s really a built up shopping center now…full blown…they just built a multi-plex theater a couple of years ago…it’s where we went shopping when Hana and Phillip were here…to the DSW and the Old Navy…having a 50% off everything…what a great sale…how do they do that?…we took advantage of that sale…I just paid that bill this past week…I also got 2 $30.00 vouchers to be spent in December…it was a pretty good deal…we spent a little time at Janae’s while they got ready to roll…Candy took us on a walking tour of two parks near Janae’s house…lovely little parks…walking with my cane…I walked a couple of miles today…1.9 miles to work off the two donuts I ate this morning…we decided to have Chinese for lunch…a late lunch…my sister was making her special chicken soup for dinner…after we left them after lunch we needed a few more things…salad stuff for Thanksgiving…lettuce and avocados and tomatoes…flowers for the table…Rose’s Lime Juice since Costco didn’t have it…bought vodka…Absolute…the big one for $25.00…had to get carrots and brussel sprouts for my Mon’s veggie side…mashed together with a lot of butter…delicious and so colorful…and good for you…string beans for Pam to saute with garlic…we are only responsible for sides…my sister ordered the turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes and gravy and cranberry sauce…to be delivered still “hot”…we are on our way to tour a few wineries in Napa…my sister rented a van…we picked it up this evening…Ben and Allegra are arriving this evening…their flight was supposed to take off at the same time ours did last night…only from JFK…it was delayed….arriving at 2:00 AM instead of 12:00 midnight…we faced-timed with Ben just before he was scheduled to board…they arrival time was changed to 1:30 AM…they will Uber to their Hotel…and Candy will pick them up in the morning…we’re all to be ready at 7:30…

after Open AI ousted Sam Altman…500 employees wrote a scathing letter to the board asking for their resignation and the return of Altman or they would leave and follow Altman to Microsolf…he was off to Microsoft…it’s been a chaotic 5 days in Silicon Valley…Altman will return to the Company he founded…he’ll be reinstated as it’s Chief Executive…from The New York Times by Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Tripp Mickle, Karen Weise and Kevin Roose: “Sam Altman was reinstated late Tuesday as OpenAI’s chief executive, the company said, successfully reversing his ouster by the company’s board last week after a campaign waged by his allies, employees and investors.

The board of directors will be overhauled, jettisoning several members who had opposed Mr. Altman. Adam D’Angelo, the chief executive of Quora, will be the only holdover.

“We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo,” OpenAI said in a post to X. “We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.”

The return of Mr. Altman and Greg Brockman, the company’s president, and the remaking of the board, capped a frenetic five days that upended OpenAI, the maker of the ChatGPT chatbot and one of the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence companies.

The company’s revamped board of directors will include Mr. Taylor, an early Facebook officer and former co-chief executive of Salesforce; Mr. Summers, the former Treasury secretary; and Mr. D’Angelo.

Mr. Taylor will act as board chairman, the company said.

Mr. D’Angelo was leading the negotiations, according to two people in touch with the board. The general framework for the changes was in place by late Sunday, one of those people said.

The company’s revamped board of directors will include Mr. Taylor, an early Facebook officer and former co-chief executive of Salesforce; Mr. Summers, the former Treasury secretary; and Mr. D’Angelo.

Mr. Taylor will act as board chairman, the company said.

Mr. D’Angelo was leading the negotiations, according to two people in touch with the board. The general framework for the changes was in place by late Sunday, one of those people said.

The chief executive of OpenAI was abruptly pushed out of the company by its board of directors on Nov. 17, upending the A.I. industry.

Determining the composition of the board slowed down the decision to let Mr. Altman back, according to that person and one other. OpenAI called the new board its “initial” board, indicating it could expand.

A person close to the board’s deliberations on Tuesday said that Mr. D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner pressed for certain concessions from Mr. Altman, including an independent investigation into his leadership of OpenAI.

In the end, Ms. Toner and Ms. McCauley agreed to step down from the board because it was clear that it needed a fresh start, this person close to deliberations said. If all of them stepped down, they worried that it would suggest the board erred even though they collectively felt they did the right thing, this person said.

Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, supported the move. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, said on X that he was “encouraged by the changes to OpenAI board, calling it a “first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance.” He said Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman should return to OpenAI.

OpenAI’s board surprised Mr. Altman and the company’s employees on Friday afternoon when it told him he was being pushed out. Mr. Brockman, who co-founded the company with Mr. Altman and others, resigned in protest.

The ouster kicked off efforts by Mr. Altman, 38, his allies in the tech industry and OpenAI’s employees to force the company’s board to bring him back. On Sunday evening, after a weekend of negotiations, the board said it was going to stick with its decision.

But in a head-spinning development just hours later, Microsoft, OpenAI’s largest investor, said that Mr. Altman, Mr. Brockman and others would be joining the company to start a new advanced artificial intelligence lab.

Most of OpenAI’s more than 700 employees signed a letter telling the board they would walk out and follow Mr. Altman to Microsoft if he wasn’t reinstated, throwing the future of the start-up into jeopardy.

“I love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together,” Mr. Altman said in a post to X. “with the new board and w satya’s support, i’m looking forward to returning to openai, and building on our strong partnership with msft.”

Four board members — Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI founder; Mr. D’Angelo; Ms. Toner, a director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology; and Ms. McCauley, an entrepreneur and computer scientist — had initially decided to push Mr. Altman out.

But as the employee revolt grew, Mr. Sutskever repented in a message on X: “I deeply regret my participation in the board’s actions.” He also signed the letter. Now that Mr. Altman has been reinstated and a new board is in place, Mr. Brockman, who has worked closely with Mr. Altman for more than a decade, will also return to OpenAI. Mr. Sutskever is no longer on the board but remains an OpenAI employee.

“Ilya is thrilled that Sam is back as C.E.O. and he has been working tirelessly for days to make this happen,” said Mr. Sutskever’s lawyer, Alex Weingarten. “It is what is best for the company.”

OpenAI employees celebrated a return to normalcy Tuesday night, after five days of uncertainty. Workers had been given the week off for Thanksgiving, but many remained in the office or glued to their screens to follow the drama. “Thank god,” one employee said. “We’re so back,” said another.

Thrive Capital, which is leading a new funding offer than will value OpenAI at more than $80 billion, said it would continue to partner with OpenAI “now and in the future.”

Sam Altman phoned The New York Times and said: “I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving.”…I hope we all have a lovely Thanksgiving…!!!…and speaking of turkeys…Biden pardoned Liberty and Belle on Monday…

a revolting development…Speaker Mike Johnson “met” briefly with trump at Mar-a-Lago…he was there “supposedly” to attend a fundraiser for Florida representative Gus Bilirakis…yeah!…after Johnson endorsed trump for the presidency…

not a revolting development…Israeli Cabinet has approved a hostage deal…release of hostages and prisoners on both side, plus a four day cease fire…hallelujah!!!…

ready for bed…I’ll be up and ready to go to the family’s field trip to Napa…another Hallelujah!!!…Happy Thanksgiving Eve Eve…

found a dime today…

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