Technology is awesome. Right now I am sitting in a car in the middle of Azerbaijan, writing this on my laptop which is hooked up to the internet through a cellphone. Why am I here? Why am I taking the time during my workday to write a blog post about technology? All valid questions.
You see, today ended up not being like very other day. Our company is looking at a new project here in Azerbaijan so we decided to take a field trip out to scout locations for our road. Seems simple enough. Drive out to the middle of nowhere take some pictures and some GPS coordinates and drive back home. At least that was what was supposed to happen.
We drove out to the first location we had planned and took our pictures, got harassed by the local police, and took our GPS locations. Nothing too exciting (except for the police harassment, trying to explain to a cop that you are just taking pictures of the land and power lines for a road that doesn't exist when he doesn't speak your language is not easy). We got back into the car, flipped it into gear, and...went nowhere.
Upon investigation we discovered that not only was the transmission low on fluid, but there wasn't any fluid in the transmission to begin with. So we checked underneath and sure enough we had left a long trail of red fluid behind us. We weren't going anywhere.
So here I sit, and have been for the last hour and a half, waiting for another car to come and pick us up. Our driver keeps telling us 5 minutes and has been for the last half hour. I'm starting to not trust these people, they're all a bunch of con-men. But as I type this a white Toyota is pulling up. Looks like we are saved after all.
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