As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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As many of you know I have 4 jobs (it isn’t as bad as it sounds). I have a full-time job as an office assistant, 8:30 to 5 M-F, I work at Disney Store 4-12 hours a week, I do pet food demos on the weekend and some weekday evenings 0-16 hours a week and I do pet sitting usually on weekends and vacation sits. My schedules work around baseball and free time (yes I have some) with Belle. Everything must work like clockwork or my head would be spinning like a top!!
We are required to get our schedules for the following month for the dog food demos in my the 6th of the previous month. That is hard for me to do but I do it. I expect the person doing the schedules to have them to us ASAP. Last month because of all the recall news we were asked for more availability. The first time I got the e-mail I ignored it (yeah right like I had MORE time). The second time I looked at my schedule and decided to give him a few weekday evenings (Mon & Fri days I don’t work at DS normally). A mistake was made on the calendar and Easter was put on as a “regular” day and since I don’t really celebrate Easter I put down that I could work. I figured they would put me in a store that was open. No biggie. I got an e-mail saying that putting Easter on the calendar was a mistake and if we were scheduled that day we need to find another day that month. Yeah right!! I explained I didn't have any more days. He said, "you can just make it up next month." UGH...huh?
Fast forward to May 6, I got my schedule in. I thought maybe I would get my May assignments by May 20th at the latest. They were mailed out on May 25!!! I still have not gotten anything in the mail (they are mailed from a city less then an hour away). I e-mailed my boss and let him know I have not gotten my schedule. He e-mailed me my assignments….I am scheduled for May 15th from 3-7! UGH Since I usually work at Disney Store that night I doubt I will be able to work at all that evening. I know for a fact that I never would have put that date as an available date. Now I have a feeling he is going to tell me I need to jump through hoops to change the day/time (even though it wasn't MY mistake...just like last month with Easter). I just want to scream. I have made employee schedules it is NOT that hard. Our schedules are printed on calendars.
Sorry just had to vent.
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Count your blessings. DS's hours keep getting cut. He's lucky if he gets 12 hours a week, he usually gets like about 9 or 10.....I keep telling him he needs a new job, or a second job. I think they're trying to make him quit.
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Count your blessings. DS's hours keep getting cut. He's lucky if he gets 12 hours a week, he usually gets like about 9 or 10.....I keep telling him he needs a new job, or a second job. I think they're trying to make him quit.
jerks! Maybe he can work for me...on the 15th?
If I hear anything come up I will let you know. From time to time we hear whispers in the office of job opening in Okemos. Maybe he should work for Hobby Lobby....I am sure they get a discount!
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Yeah right!! I explained I didn't have any more days. He said, "you can just make it up next month." 
UGH...huh?
I still have not gotten anything in the mail (they are mailed from a city less then an hour away). I e-mailed my boss and let him know I have not gotten my schedule. He e-mailed me my assignments….I am scheduled for May 15th from 3-7! 
UGH Since I usually work at Disney Store that night I doubt I will be able to work at all that evening. I know for a fact that I never would have put that date as an available date. Now I have a feeling he is going to tell me I need to jump through hoops to change the day/time (even though it wasn't MY mistake...just like last month with Easter). I just want to scream. I have made employee schedules it is NOT that hard. Our schedules are printed on calendars. 
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jerks! 
Maybe he can work for me...on the 15th? 
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