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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
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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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07-30-2006, 02:15 AM
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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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Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
I can [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] about it now, of course. Dinner tonight was the last bit of dehydrated soup that we had stocked up back in 1999. The picante sauce was finally used up and now...the soup! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/thewave.gif[/img] Thank heavens for shelf-stable products. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] Thank heavens I have a sense of humor, too [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
Did *ANYONE* else stock up or do anything "unusual" for Y2K?
btw, we also installed a fireplace with a crane and bought a full armament of cast iron cookware. I learned how to preserve all kinds of foods and cook with the fire/cast iron. It has come in handy during power outages, I will say...
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07-30-2006, 10:25 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
We didn't stock up on anything. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] I was "hoping" that nothing would happen.
Michael
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07-30-2006, 10:55 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/roflmao.gif[/img]
Nope. I didn't do anything special for Y2K. I had pots I could have used to cook (and melt snow) on our wood stove we used to have if I needed to and a manual can opener, which I had in case of normal power outages. And my pantry is normally stocked with enough food to take care of at least 2 weeks anyway because I tend to buy quantities of crap when it's on sale so I didn't worry about food either. Plus, we were assured by our hydro company over and over again that everything was still going to work come Jan 1st.
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07-30-2006, 11:20 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: May 2006
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502no_prv.gif[/img] We knew it was all just hype. Living in NYC there were lots of back up power generators for just in case, but no one went out of there way to stock up on anything. I can't believe you kept your soup for six years!
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07-30-2006, 11:23 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Dracut, MA
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
we did not do anything
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07-30-2006, 11:31 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 4,685
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
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we did not do anything
[/ QUOTE ] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yeahthat.gif[/img]
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07-30-2006, 11:56 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Slate Belt, PA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 15,346
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
As newlyweds, the only thing we stocked up on in case of an emergency was wine, chips, and pretzels. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] In fact, we rang in Y2K playing 'Tipsy' Monopoly. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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07-30-2006, 11:59 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2003
Location: a mere few minutes from the Mouse! <3
Concierge Level: 2
Posts: 9,777
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
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We didn't stock up on anything. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] I was "hoping" that nothing would happen.
Michael
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[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/yeahthat.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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07-30-2006, 12:06 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
I will add (in my defense [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ) that we live in the boonies, so a high wind can take out our power/phone. Rain takes out power/phone. Sometimes a sunny day can take out power/phone. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img] We also live in the secondary snowbelt and I hadn't adjusted my shopping habits for that yet, having moved from OK, so it really was a good education for me in pantry management. It was also when there were shopping "deals" all over the internet, so the grocery store paid me to take picante sauce home every week [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] and I couldn't pass *that* up! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] As far as the soup goes, DH reminded me that all of it hadn't been our stock, but we had some "survivalist" friends in Maryland who sent us a box after Y2K that had the tubs o' soup, so *that* made me feel better. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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07-30-2006, 01:40 PM
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Living Seas wannabe
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 31,940
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
I did not do anything special. I lived outside DC and figured that area, if something had happened, would have been one of the first to be restored.
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07-30-2006, 01:42 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Southampton, U.K.
Posts: 8,125
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
We didn't do anything.
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07-30-2006, 02:45 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: California
Posts: 3,878
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
Ok you are all going to think I'm [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] But I do this kind of thing just in case "you never know when its going to happen" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]
I'm going to blame it on my parents and the time era I grew up in. I was born in 1957, the Red Scare era, in the LA area. A couple of times a month we would have drop drills at school because we were ground zero. This always bothered [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] me because if we were at ground zero it wouldn't matter if we dropped under our desk or not we were not going to survive. They also used the drill for earthquake readiness.
Well, mom and dad grew up during the depression so they were extrememly frugal and prepared for "you never know when it is going to happen" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] They stocked piled food, they paid for everything in cash, dad had this thing when he would buy stuff that, "well you might want to get two just incase you lose the other one".
I now live in a National Forest and the threat of forest fires is a real life likelyhood. So, I have all the camping gear in one central location. I know exactly what I'm taking out of the house first and yes I have all the emergency food, water, cash, radio, flashlights, batteries, etc.
I'm not crazy, I'm just prepared [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I'm of the firm belief that everyone should have an emergency back up plan because it is true you really don't know "when its going to happen" [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] and it can happen anytime anywhere, so you might as well be prepared for it. It could be a power outage, a natural disaster, war. But it does happen.
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07-30-2006, 02:58 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 5,325
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
Ok, I didn't do anything at all but my uncle went way over board. He lives out in the country and he built an underground shelter out of some kind of underground tank. He stocked it with food, guns, and ammunition! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img] He was ready for an all out war! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
He made fun of us for not doing anything and told us he would be sorry when all of this stuff happened and would wish we could get in his tank! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] It is crazy to think about it now. My grandparents live right in front of him and used his stockpile to do some of their grocery shopping for a long time! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/rofl2.gif[/img]
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07-30-2006, 03:17 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: LITH, Illinois
Concierge Level: 1
Posts: 3,205
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
We did nothing here.
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07-30-2006, 03:32 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Indiana , USA
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 26,527
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Re: Y2K rears it\'s ugly head one LAST time!
Nope, we did nothing to prepare. Figured it was a bunch of hooey, and nothing to worry about.
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