[Please feel free to forward this message to those who knew Cameron and would like to attend the services.]

CELEBRATION OF LIFE: CAMERON ALEXANDER ROBB

As per Cameron's specific wishes, there will be two services, one in Northern California at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, and one in Southern California at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Cameron's partner Scott Farrar invites you to bring pictures and stories of Cameron to share. RSVP for both of these events is appreciated, but not mandatory – please come if you can. If you RSVP, please let Scott know which service (Palo Alto, Pasadena, or both) you plan to attend, and the number of people in your party.


NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SERVICE:

All Saints' Episcopal Church
555 Waverly Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Website: www.asaints.org
Map and Directions: http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=555+Waverly&csz=Palo+Alto+CA
Notes: The church itself does not have a parking lot, but street parking is available, and there are several free parking lots and garages nearby. Carpooling is encouraged. Also, the church is only a 10 minute walk from the Palo Alto Caltrain station.

Saturday, August 13, 2005
2pm – 3pm: As per Cameron's specific wishes, a traditional Episcopal memorial service and Eucharist (Communion will be offered for all who wish to receive) in the main Church.
3pm – 5pm: Celebration of Cameron's life continues in the Parish Hall with refreshments, memorabilia, and sharing of stories.


SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SERVICE:

All Saints Church
132 North Euclid Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101-1796
Map and Directions: http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=132+North+Euclid&csz=Pasadena+CA

Sunday August 14, 2005
3pm – 4pm: As per Cameron's specific wishes, a traditional Episcopal memorial service and Eucharist (Communion will be offered for all who wish to receive) in the Chapel.
4pm – 5pm: Celebration of Cameron's life continues in the Guild Room with refreshments, memorabilia, and sharing of stories.


FLOWERS, DONTATIONS, ETC:

In lieu of flowers, if you wish please make a donation in Cameron's name to one of the following charitable organizations:

All Saints' Episcopal Church (Palo Alto)
www.asaints.org

All Saints Church (Pasadena)
www.allsaints-pas.org

San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
www.sfgmc.org

All Join Hands Foundation
www.alljoinhands.org

American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org

Current Mood: devastated
Current Music or book I'm reading: Carpenters/Close to You

Cameron Alexander Robb passed away at 5:55pm Saturday evening, July 30 2005 after an l8 year battle with a brain tumor. Cameron was a fighter, incredibly strong, and bore the burden of the cancer far longer than anyone should have to.

Cameron was involved in many activities and groups – his career at Sun Microsystems, a member of All Saints Church in Pasadena and Palo Alto, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the livejournal.com community, Bay Area bear groups, and square dancing with the El Camino Reelers. Cameron was in particular excited and proud of his involvement with the 2005 IAGSDC convention “Star Thru the Silicon Galaxy”. Not only was he an active member of the convention planning committee, this was also his 10th convention, and this year he received his 10 year medallion. He looked forward to that moment so much.

He is survived by so many people who love him – his partner Scott, his sisters Mary Beth and Alison, and so many friends and family. He is being missed and will always be missed.

Please remember him fondly in your hearts, think of him in your prayers. He is finally free of the burden of the cancer now, and at peace.

A memorial service is being planned. The specific date, time, and place will be announced in a future email message.

Cameron Alexander Robb
1956-2005

Current Mood: Devastated
Current Music or book I'm reading: Carpenters/Close to You

In two weeks plus one day will be the start of 22nd annual International Gay and Lesbian square dance convention in Santa Clara Ca.

excessor and I have been on the organizing committee for years so to have it be this close is both thrilling and scary at the same time. The final i are being dotted as well as checking that all the t's are crossed and hoping that everything is covered.

We will be hosting dancers from 8 nations for four days. Providing dancing to the finest callers. Providing entertainment such as country western dancing (provided by Sundance Saloon) and keanubear's band, and just having fun.

It will be fun seeing friends from near and far again. This will be my 10th convention.

There is a lot of work that has gone into the planning. But also the reward of throwing a party for over 1000 of your best friends.

Tags: convention
Current Mood: busy
Current Music or book I'm reading: ABBA - Dancing Queen

Between now and July 5, I have some engagement everyday. Sometimes it's a meal with friends, dances, pride, concerts or convention related things.

Scott and I thinking about taking a trip after convention. Proposed destinations include Portland, Seattle or Vancouver. Someplace on the cool side of the country.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music or book I'm reading: Assassins- Everybody's Got The Right

it was a very slow relaxing last few days. nanocub has a bad cold so we couldn't collect the dinner at sapphiresf's that I won at the Foggy city auction or go to San Jose pride. I did get the pleasure of nursing my husband.

Dinner is rescheduled and there is SF pride coming up.

Current Mood: optimistic
Current Music or book I'm reading: I - Concerto for Two Harpsichords in Cmin

Our garden is really going great guns this year. For the past few weeks, we've been harvesting strawberries. Yesterday, Scott harvested the first of the tomatoes.

From the size of the tomato plants this year, we will be harvesting quite a number of tomatoes. There is nothing like the taste of a homegrown tomato!

Current Mood: awake
Current Music or book I'm reading: Mario Cantone - "Have it Your Way"

I got up this am to find the shower dripping faster than Niagara falls. So we call the plumber. I go out to lunch with a friend and return to find no plumber.

So I lie down to take a nap and when I get up the plumbers been here and gone and the cub didn't wake me. HMMMMMMMMM

Scott told me I didn't miss much. At least I should've been awoken for a view of the crack shouldn't I?

Current Mood: horny
Current Music or book I'm reading: Joan Diener, Richard Kiley, Company - Dulcinea (Reprise)

Thump, thump, crack was what we woke up to this morning at 7 am. A nearby neighbor had brought in some day laborers to break up his concrete patio with sledge hammers.

Unrelated to that was the power went out in the city. No coffee and a grumpy cub does not a happy bear make especially when he is having a nice dream about someone's buns.

I groused and grumbled then put my noise canceling headphones over my cpap mask and managed to get some more sleep.

The cub was not so happy (The number one rule in our house is do not wake the cub , at least without food in hand).

They've just now finished pouring the last of the cement for his new patio. At least it was done in one day but I think he is going to get a talking to by the homeowners association.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music or book I'm reading: Nino Rota - Adieu

This last week has been a week to regroup and see where I am. I've been retreating into my CD library and listened to things I haven't listened to in years.

In fact I've been waking up to snippets of 70's music that I don't really have but a slim memory of. Songs like Yellow River, Rose Garden & Help Me Make it through the night.. What's up with that? These are song from the early 70's (in my infancy)

Scott and I slept the whole weekend away except for dinner with friends on Saturday Night. It was so nice.

Scott's planning to go away up to Wildwood for a retreat this weekend if as he puts it "I can find a bearsitter" Hrmph.

Current Mood: worried
Current Music or book I'm reading: Mozart : Vesperae Solennes De Confessore K339, Laudate Dominum

I'd love to thank the anonymous person who bought me a book off my Amazon wish list. It was a big surprise to see the box sitting there. I racked my brain to see if I had ordered anything and came up empty.

Current Mood: surprised
Current Music or book I'm reading: Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Rick Lyon & The Guys - The Internet Is For Porn

The cub stopped and brought home dinner so I didn't have to cook. I'll have to think of a proper way to thank him.

Current Mood: awake
Current Music or book I'm reading: The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge - I Got Me Flowers

Today was a rare down day for me. I went out and did my what I needed to do but it was without the normal chipper me. This is so unlike me.

There are many things that are hitting me now, I wonder if that is contributing. This crazy weather isn't helping any either.

I look out after the July 4th weekend and see emptiness and boredom if I'm not able to visit friends in the city or in Morgan Hill.

Hopefully the bluebird of happiness took a day off and I'll be fine tomorrow. There's only one way to tell.

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music or book I'm reading: Ethel Merman - My Defenses Are Down

I had a longingsh entry planned to write but was blinded mesmerized wanted to grab and ,,,, struck by enhydrasf's user icon.

Current Mood: hot
Current Music or book I'm reading: Tracey Ullman - Falling In And Out Of Love

I'm ending up sponsoring a track on the SFGMC new Christmas CD. It's going to be dedicated to Scott. I hope he likes the dedication.

I feel like I'm in Torch Song Trilogy.

Current Mood: mellow

The weekend went fast. Too fast in my opinion.

Highlights

-Talking shop with backawayslowly

-Having dinner with backawayslowly , beg1n , dhbearguy & nanocub at Askew (along with treo fun)

-Waving to gregorbehr and thinking I was giving him privacy without realizing he was pup_ajax instead of a date. (my bad, we'll have to do coffee)

-Lemon goodness and lots of hugs at sapphiresf & lb925 's chocolate party.

-Lots of friends caught up with.

Current Mood: refreshed
Current Music or book I'm reading: pup_ajaxpup_ajax K321, Confitebor

A new type of queen?

Current Mood: mischievous
Current Music or book I'm reading: H. Purcell - March (funeral procession for Queen Mary)

While the rest of the world geeks out over Tiger, anyone who uses a Cisco VPN (which includes some of the biggest names in the valley) to dial into work has to wait on Apple and Cisco to finish updating the VPN.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Of course by then the first update for tiger may be done to solve the last minute bugs.

The one thing I'm not looking forward to is all the software updates from other vendors to take advantage of the new Operating System.

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music or book I'm reading: John Barry - The James Bond Theme

The roses have been out for awhile, although in some yards they are just beginning to bloom.

Yellow roses are my favorite of them all. They have always captured my imagination, I'm not sure why. Although, silver roses may be a close second to be my favorite.

My favorite flower though I think are freesias mainly for their fragrance. Hmm the most fragrant ones tend to be yellow. Do I detect a pattern?

On another note, I seem to be attempting to develop the fine art of napping. I say attempting because those are the days when I get a call from the cub just after I have fallen asleep. He just is calling to tell me he loves me. Today, I actually did get a nap in late in the day. I must have fooled the cub.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music or book I'm reading: Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

Ballerinas of Spring

Dancing ladies is what my grandmother called fuchsias. My grandparents had a couple of large fushia bushes at there house in what is now south central Los Angeles.
With red tutus, white skirts and pink upper bodies, I can see why.

Later, after my breakup with L. and had moved back to Orange County, I took up the cultivation of fuchsias with a passion. At one point, I had 30 different varieties in all colors of the rainbow.

A friend and I would drive up to the Ventura / Santa Barbara area, one of the big fushia growing areas of the nation about every other month to buy plants.

Gardening has always been a big passion in my family. I've been in and out of the passion depending on where I lived and how much time I wanted to devote to it.

Currently, the cub is the driving force behind our garden. However, I'm starting to feel the urge to do more of the gardening or green our place up with houseplants.

It must be because shorts and t-shirt weather has finally arrived or Spring is in the air.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music or book I'm reading: Ella Fitzgerald - The Lady Is A Tramp

I've been in a curious mood the last couple of days. The result has been mass quantities of chocolate. Now usually I'm so so about chocolate while the cub is the chocoholic in the family.

To illustrate, I once got a pound of chocolates for Valentines day. In June my roommate asked me when I was going to open it for her to eat.

Not the last few days, however. I directed the cub to go to Coldstone Creamery yesterday for a hot fudge sundae with extra fudge. Then tonight I made chocolate chip cookies. I'm thinking about making fudge tomorrow. I hope it lasts through the weekend.

I wonder what planet is out of whack to cause chocolate cravings.

Current Mood: weird
Current Music or book I'm reading: Dave Brubeck - Blue Rondo A La Turk