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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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11-25-2005, 07:35 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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The Saga of the Christmas Lights
So, I go to light the Christmas tree (traditional Friday after T-day thing) and NONE of the lights work. Not a single one in 8 strings! DH gets out his multi-tester and the fuses are fine, bulbs are fine, but not working (and we tried several outlets). So, I go to Hobby Lobby to buy 8 new strings of lights. I get home and start to open them when, lo and behold, the wires/bases are WHITE! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] Not what I thought I was getting. Seems like, in my haste, I picked up 3 green wired and 5 white wired. So, I head back out to Hobby Lobby. I decided to dash into Target since I'm out to pick up stuff at the dollar spot for DDs music/church teachers and head on over. Get my replacement lights and come home. Yay! They are all green! So, I plug in the thingy on the tree pole and nothing, nada, zilch. Seems like that has gone bad, too. I have to take that off the tree and wire on an extension cord at this point. I light the tree (it takes me a couple of hours, anyway), get to the top where I can't reach and call DH in to help. I use a 20 strand at the top, so I pulled the new one out and there is a bulb not working. OKaaaaayyyy, replace the bulb, and still not working. Apparently there is something bad in the socket. All the other lights are OK, but not one, so DH refuses to use it (fire hazard and all). So in the morning, I get to make ANOTHER trip to Hobby Lobby for my dinky little 20 light string and MAYBE get the tree finished! DDs are so upset since we should be decorating tonight, but DH is refusing to "fluff" the branches until all the lights are on, so I guess it will be tomorrow before the tree is done. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
So...anyone else have a Fun With Lights story???
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11-25-2005, 11:45 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Dreaming of the Future
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 24,867
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Re: The Saga of the Christmas Lights
We decorated our tree about 5 years ago everything lights, garland, ornaments, tree falls, pick up all the broken pieces and then redo it. falls again...go buy fake tree now no more worries!
Amy
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11-26-2005, 12:27 AM
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Dopey's biggest fan!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: China Spring, TX
Concierge Level: 9
Posts: 26,975
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Re: The Saga of the Christmas Lights
Not really a story but we put everything up the wrong way out front today and had to take it all down and then back up in order to plug it in right! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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11-26-2005, 10:02 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 4,685
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Re: The Saga of the Christmas Lights
I don't have a tree story but I will tell you about my mom and dad's.
The first story is about the cat. Cat crawls under the tree and he is a chewer sometimes. Need I say more. He starts chewing on a string of lights and my dad hears a sizzle and sees the cat running like mad out from under the tree.
The next story involves the cat again but, this time it's different. Mom and dad notice the cat keeps going up to the tree, looking at it and meowing. They then hear something in the tree chattering. IT'S A SQUIRREL. My dad opens up the sliding glass door and tries to shoo the squirrel out of the tree. Doesn't work. So he calls the nature center in our town and they come with there squirrel catcher and get the squirrel out of the tree. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Never had these problems before the cat arrived. Oh well, it's Christmas. You roll with the flow and laugh about it later. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smileysanta.gif[/img]
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11-26-2005, 01:02 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Manchester NH
Concierge Level: 4
Posts: 12,514
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Re: The Saga of the Christmas Lights
Yikes Dawn... we've been lucky so far, no major problems yet.
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11-26-2005, 01:35 PM
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Faith, Trust, Pixie Dust
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 34,171
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Re: The Saga of the Christmas Lights
Oh my goodness Dawn-what a fiasco!
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11-27-2005, 01:12 AM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Central NY State
Posts: 4,202
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Re: The Saga of the Christmas Lights
The first year after Mom died, Dad and I decided we couldn't face getting out all our traditional decorations, so on Christmas Eve, Dad bought all new stuff, including an artificial tree; we'd always had real that he'd cut down before. All he could find were red and green lights and a gold lame tree skirt, so the tree was red on the top and bottom and green in the middle; talk about gaudy! Plus, my cousin and I put the lights on, went to plug them in and had the wrong end; had to redo them all!
When I was little Dad would go cut down a tree. Sometimes Mom and I would make him get another one if we didn't like his choice. For some reason, his trees never had any middle, just a top and bottom that were full, which you had to cut off to get into the house; ever try to decorate a tree with ONE branch? [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] I didn't know real trees could be symetrical until I went to college in the city! We always said our trees were the "Charlie Brown Trees" that Dad felt the sorriest for.
When we had the cat, she used to like to sit under the tree, I think she thought she was in the woods! One time, Dad brought a tree inside that the cat wouldn't go near. Once it warmed up a few hours after being inside it started to STINK! Turns out it had been used as a bathroom by a coyote or something! We got another tree FAST!
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