(1) I ran the Thanksgiving Day 10k in 44:23 (7:09/mile pace) which is a good, though not great, time for me. I finished 605th out of 8923 participants. My wife ran her first-ever 10k in 1:03:10. Congrats!

Best t-shirt I saw: "The Pride Lasts Longer Than The Pain"

(2) This fellow criticizes my inflation adjustment of the Thanksgiving dinner price.

Um, so what? News flash folks: Life is not "adjusted for inflation."

But he's wrong. Life is in fact adjusted for inflation because our wages and salaries go up with (and typically by more than) inflation. The whole point of adjusting for inflation is to see if the price of something, in this case Thanksgiving dinner, is going up faster or less fast than most other things (including your wages). The fact is that Thanksgiving dinner prices have risen less than other prices (including wages) over time.

Yes, many (sometimes questionable) assumptions have to be made about how to do inflation adjustments. But to argue that there's no value in trying to do so makes no sense to me.

Btw, this is my favorite publication (.pdf) looking at the real prices of things over time. ATSRTWT.