It’s been a tough day and as I write to you at 5:30 pm I feel very tired.

My exhaustion has nothing to do with work but with the fact that the work has been done in temperatures of 80 degrees plus inside an iron box with no bloody air conditioning.

This is normal procedure for a new ship as everything has to be tested including the air flow system. However, why couldn’t the engineers at Fincantieri have watched the Weather Channel where they would have seen that yesterday it was 15 degrees with showers forecast and that today it would be 300 degrees in the shade?

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