No holds, 2/5 star user rating on my library’s catalogue site, lol.

You can see how I came to this conclusion - haven’t the foggiest otherwise.

Lol, found it - Beautiful Goats: Portraits of Classic Breeds by Felicity Stockwell. My prevailing theory is that there’s a group of folks in my city who just put holds on everything and pass on the titles they don’t actually want.

Good tips!

And for the Canadians in the room, same here!

Now, there’s gonna be holds on the really good stuff* from past experience, but regardless it’s an awesome service.

*Off topic story: I used to work a job that would have unexpected, lengthy periods of downtime. There was one of these periods where I’d browse the new acquisitions in my local library system. There was a book with photos of goats that had 68 holds on it. Literally, it was just a goat photography book.

To this day, I am intensely curious about who these 68 people were, and why they didn’t just get their pictures of goats from the internet like us normal people.

…this is embarrassing to say, but I never considered that this could be the case for vagina owners. Without going into too many details (not really my place to share), hasn’t come up with my partner and I re: sex, and I’ve never thought to ask her re: masturbation and sleepiness or lack thereof.

Could always just be an element of personal make up, though. I learned something today! Legit appreciate the added perspective!

Interesting! Probably something to do with reinforcement. Wonder what evidence supports that (totally believe it’s a legit suggestion, just curious how people reached that tip).

Huh - interesting. May just be a function of habit, but I always found stuff like that keeps me awake. I know other people don’t, though - my wife falls asleep to podcasts, but she also puts the TV on as background noise. Never understood that myself - it’s either music, or I’m going to be glued to whatever is on even if I have no inherent interest in it.

Learned a lot about Canada-US border security, food television competitions, and drag competitions that way, lol.

Always interesting to see what strokes work for different folks, though!

Appreciate the comment - all good on the lack of experience with cannabis withdrawls, intent was really just folks talking about sleep habits in general and early morning routines.

It’s a good tip. I have some meditation experience under my belt as well, and it’s usually provides some useful tricks for inducing sleep. Funny, actually - as a young teen I was dating someone who meditated (their Mom was Indian, so coached in a particular outlook) and had trouble sleeping. Described what I did as sort of like meditation, and she asked “But how can you fall asleep”. I said “You know when you’re feeling relaxed and your mind starts to drift? Change your focus to that relaxed feeling, and feel it getting deeper.” Worked like a charm.

Nowadays, I use a looped bathtub filling sound and just focus on the sound of the water. Usually works unless there’s some kind of biochemical nonsense afoot :)

Appreciate it!

Ah, meditation - something I’m familar with, works wonders, apply basic techniques in day-to-day life, promised I’d do in the mornings alongside this (not directly connected, just a timing thing) - and I still haven’t set dedicated time for practice.

Same with the journaling stuff actually - it’s a great habit, but another one that’s fallen off. Good answer!

Depends on who exactly you mean, but thinking of the ‘high school bullies’ of my day in general, mostly prison.