Election Day

I cast my first ballot in Orange County today. My polling place is my local public library, and I was happy to discover a short line of people waiting to vote when I got there this morning.

This was the first time, though, that I've voted on a ticket that included not a single actual candidate for office. Welcome to California, Land of the Proposition, Home of the Referendum.

There were eight propositions and four referendi on today's slate. I voted three Yeses and nine Nos -- I'll leave it to you to research and speculate where they might have fallen.

In other news, I notified the chorus that I would not be able to sing the holiday concert because of the work timing conflict I mentioned in my previous post here. But, I told them I would be delighted to rejoin them for the Brahms in the spring if they're up for that. No word back yet.