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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
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New parenting issue: deceitfulness (same DD and DH may have been right!) LONG
Which I *hate* when that happens! 
I have recently learned that my 15yo DD has been being extremely deceitful, sneaky, and under-handed. Her DBF called *me* a few weeks ago to ask me about her talking to another boy from their virtual school everyday for 2 weeks (he found out thru the school grapevine). Apparantly, she has been calling this other guy late at night (and e-mailing and chatting online which is a *HUGE* no-no for her). When he brought it to her attention, DD told DBF that he "talks to other girls" which he said there was one who was just a friend and he quit talking to her when my DD told him it bothered her.
I had no idea this was going on until our $600 (yes, you read right....$600) cell phone bill arrived. Granted it was for 2 months, but $400 of it was hers. I hit the roof (needless to say) and she is paying for it, but *still*! I told her no more conversing with this other person (I don't even know him, we have rules about these things) esp since she has a boyfriend.
She has been caught in several serious lies over the years (bipolar,type II) so DH and psychologist suggested that we try a keylogger program. We ran it for an hour while she was supposed to be doing schoolwork yesterday and not only did my honors history student get a 54% on a history exam, but she spent 50 minutes (of an hour) in 4 different chat rooms (frequently using her real name and the name of our school district!  ) as well as checking e-mail accounts I didn't even know she had (set them up at my parents' over the summer, I've learned) She knows that all of these things are strictly verboten (due to prior offenses) and to make matters worse, she is selectively deleting her computer history (doesn't know about the keylogger yet).
I knew she could lie, but I didn't realize that Little Miss Holier Than Thou (another long story!) was being quite this deceitful. I feel so sorry for her DBF b/c they are going to have to break it off before he gets in any deeper, since she is clearly still "hunting" and using him as a boyfriend "cover" until she finds something else, which is just *LOW* to me (she sent this other boy an e-mail just today about how jealous she is that he's interested in another girl...she's going to be a stalker before it's over with!)
She lost the use of her laptop computer months ago and is now limited to the "kid computer" in my office, but with homeschooling the other 2 as well, I can't be in there hovering all the time. I'm at a loss. I told her tonight that if she ever goes in another chat room, I'm closing her cell account and she will have no phone. I also told her that she would lose driving privileges, the ability to purchase a car, and even her job if the deceit continues, but she just pretty much sent me on a mission trip to Hell (you know the look I mean!)
I never even *thought* about sneaking out or doing anything like this in high school and my oldest is certainly nothing like this. I have no experience dealing with it, nor does anyone in my family, so does anyone have any suggestions? Ideas? What would you do in this situation? 
I appreciate any and all feedback (and you can send me on a "mission trip", too if you think I need it!  ) |
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