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I stumbled across this story today which suggests that in connection with the World Youth Days that the Roman Catholic church is putting on, indulgences are being offered to attendants. I thought that they had ditched the whole idea of indulgences in the Roman Catholic counter-reformation, but apparently not.

At the moment I'm wondering if there's any way to motivate myself to study. Having a week prior to your first exam, and then the rest almost back to back does wonders to your brain. My mind was definitely not working at peak efficiency already a couple of weeks back (witness one botched history paper), and at the moment I think that I reached my mental saturation point a couple of days as I simply can't well concentrate on my studies.

Just a few more days of this (approximately 69.5 hours as of the time of writing), and then it'll finally be time for a little relaxation, so perhaps I can finally regain a little sanity.

Now that my car is no longer insured, my brother Roger has been starting to talk of getting his own set of wheels to use.

Anyways, it doesn't look like he'd be interested in buying my car, but he seems to be interested in renting it from me, or perhaps working out some sort of shared usage arrangement.

At the moment I'm kind of clueless as to what to charge him for said usage, and also wondering if there's any advantage to having the car road-worthy rather than sitting around for a half-year or so (ie. prevent something from stiffening up or something). Any suggestions?