This definitely is music to your ears. I'd feel ecstatic if I heard that and my mood would instantly be lifted. I guess the best thing to use to see your progress is just by looking at photographs.

I'd like to know how it measures your body content. I remember reading somewhere that it sends an electric pulse through your body and from the resistance it can determine what your body fat is. I don't know how true it is, but I'd understand why they may be unreliable.

I guess the only use for the machine is inaccurately boosting your self-esteem of utterly destroying it as you feel you did so much work for nothing haha

I don't have automatic updates on I think, but that must be the absolute worst when you get cut off when you are watching something interesting. It makes me think of those TV show scenes where someone turns the TV off as soon as a football team scores a goal or something interesting was about to happen.

I've never had Afghani food before, but it looks absolutely delicious. I'll have to try some someday since it seems like I am missing out at the moment.

I was wondering what you could have brought with you to read, but my last guess would have been Donald Duck haha. Looney Tunes made up a huge part of my childhood, and I think it is useful from time to time to embrace your inner child and look back to the past @exyle! :)