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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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10-13-2003, 07:58 AM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Happy Columbus Day!
So do you have the day off today? Hmmmm...I think I shall close the office at noon! [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]
Edited b/c I can't spell! [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]
[ 10-13-2003, 08:13 AM: Message edited by: Dad2jbj ]
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10-13-2003, 08:19 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,352
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Go for it, Steve!
I am off today. DS still has school so I will have the whole day to myself. (I could count on one hand the times I have been home without anyone else.) The house is clean, the laundry is done so I'm going to stay home and be lazy all day! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 08:46 AM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Parsippany,NJ
Posts: 3,235
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
The kids have a half day of school today, so I can only work in the morning.
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10-13-2003, 09:25 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
Posts: 2,025
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
everybody off today. After quick C.C lesson, going into town to pick up last min birthday stuff for son, then off to the track for all the crazy people in my family(I am not one!) to ride the quad in the MUD!!!
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10-13-2003, 10:02 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 5,094
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Joseph and Shane are both home today - which means Mommy gets a break YAY! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] It's my dad's birthday so we're headed over to my parent's house to celebrate with him [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 10:09 AM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Houston
Posts: 5,162
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Off? OFF?? Uh, no. Not only am I here slaving in the coal mine (Well. You know.) while you slackers are playing in the mud and closing offices at noon - we have an ISO 9000 Audit going on today and tomorrow, so everybody is all stressed out.
Oughta be a crime, audits on freakin' Columbus Day. [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 11:19 AM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,343
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
My oldest is off from school, so hence I'm here!!! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] Instead of being to busy running around!! [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 11:42 AM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 13,087
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Columbus Day is not really celebrated here. All schools are in session. The only businesses who are closed are the U.S. Mail and a very few city offices.
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10-13-2003, 11:49 AM
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Community Rank: Scout 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 4,695
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
No day off for me, and I work for the government! So here I am slaving away at my computer, answering calls, chatting with you guys!
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10-13-2003, 11:57 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Caribou, Maine
Posts: 790
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Yup! Day off for me. YIPPEE! DH went to work for a half day. When he gets home, we may be off to the Cranberry Festival at Edaville Railroad. We'll see.
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10-13-2003, 03:57 PM
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PassPorter Message Board Manager
 PassPorter Guide Author
Community Rank: Legend VIP 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Maidstone, Kent, UK
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 190,285
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Happy Columbus Day everyone! [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
Strangely enough, we don't get the day off for it - I wish we did! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] So what's the history to Columbus Day then?
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10-13-2003, 06:01 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Durham,NC
Posts: 2,615
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Cheryl,
Columbus Day is the United States Celebration of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to America in 1492. [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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10-13-2003, 06:37 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
Posts: 2,025
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Some schools were off here today and some werent and some had half days. Some banks were open and some werent as well as some stores. Kind of confusing!LOL!!
When we moved to ND, we assumed that the public schools had columbus day off, since they had in NM(we thought it was nation wide holiday), so we went to Bismark for the long weekend.
I called my girlfriend to ask her to check on the cats and she said that the school called her(emergency contact) and wondered where we were, since we had not let them know she would be out of school.
I was quite embarrassed, but we got it excused for stupidity!LOL!!
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10-13-2003, 08:44 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 17,365
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
Hope everyone had a nice day - at work or at pleasure. Our kids did have the day off until Hurricane Isabel blew through last month and gave them 7 days off from school. The school board took it away along with a teacher workday in November to start the makeup process.
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10-14-2003, 12:08 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Happy Columbus Day!
I wondered what kind of a holiday is it that only some people get to celebrate, while others must slave away at the office or attend school, so I googled it. Forti, I found out Colorado was the first state to officially observe Columbus Day. Interesting how it's not really observed there now. Anyone else wanting to check it out can click here .
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