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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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08-02-2006, 10:03 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 9,239
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Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT - UPDATED on 8/2 in original post
Well, the DH is at work - where he's supposed to be, and I noticed the house getting hotter and hotter and figured he'd just fudged around the thermostat before going to work. So I turned it down and now HOURS later it's still over 80 in the house. Blowing cool air but not cold air and it's supposed to get over 100 tomorrow. - HEAT ADVISORY time.
Sometimes he reads the boards before he calls me - so I'm hoping he'll see this! LOL
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPP [img]http://smileys.*************.com/cat/36/36_1_47.gif[/img]
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Update: Next Morning: After Sam spent a sleepless night, worrying about what might be wrong and suddenly having to come up with $1500++. I called a small company (run by dad/son) that was referred to us by a friend who is a local business owner. When I called at 10:00am - they said they were going through our town and would stop and take a look. They asked if it had ever been serviced (imagine GUNKY inside on the coils). We bought the house about 2-1/2 year ago and have never had it serviced. Strange thing was, last weekend Sam had the thought to clean it all out, but never did it. Hmmmm [img]http://smileys.*************.com/cat/23/23_14_16.gif[/img] Well they sprayed ACID in it. Wow - Cool - the whole family was outside watching because anything to do with a flesh eating substance has to be cool! LOL Meanwhile he says depending on how long it's been running hot, will determine is the compressor is bad - which means a NEW air conditioning unit. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] Well, I'm happy to report it was just the gunk, although it's about 20 years old and Sam said to start saving money now for a new one! Thanks for all the well wishes and pixies. It WORKED. They came almost IMMEDIATELY!! </font>
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08-02-2006, 10:06 PM
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But why is the rum gone?
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Needville, Texas
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 12,286
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
Sorry Yvonne! I hope it gets fixed soon. We went through that last summer at work!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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08-02-2006, 10:13 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: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
Hope it gets fixed soon! I'm sorry its broken!
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08-03-2006, 12:20 AM
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Community Rank: Scout
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,751
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
I feel your pain we came home from our trailer at the shore on Tuesday and our house was stifling, you guessed my central air is broken too and it was 101 degrees today here with a heat index of about 115 [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]!!! It is still about 90 degrees in my house even with all the fans running. I am a big puddle sitting here. Luckily we are going back down the shore tomorrow for a week and there is central air there. Hopefully our air conditioner fixer friend will be able to get here next week sometime although it won't be so hot by them [img]http://smileys.*************.com/cat/36/36_1_47.gif[/img] I hope your DH is able to fix yours for you before that heat gets there tomorrow!!
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08-03-2006, 02:02 AM
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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: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
I hope you get it fixed real soon. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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08-03-2006, 06:15 AM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
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Posts: 22,002
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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08-03-2006, 06:31 AM
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Community Rank: Navigator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Davidsonville, MD
Posts: 6,563
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
I am a weather weenie and hate hate hate a hot house, so I feeel your pain. I'm hoping he's fixed it by now!
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08-03-2006, 07:27 AM
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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: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
Hope it gets fixed soon!!
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08-03-2006, 08:54 AM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 34,137
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
I hope it wasn't anything too serious!
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08-03-2006, 09:02 AM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Louisville, KY
Concierge Level: 7
Posts: 18,767
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
I hope it all gets fixed Yvonne!!
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08-03-2006, 09:05 AM
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Community Rank: Legend Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 35,829
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
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08-03-2006, 09:07 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 13,176
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
Hope it's fixed very soon!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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08-03-2006, 09:14 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 10,481
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
My parents don't have AC...when I visited them in Vermont last month I was dreading sleeping in their house! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img] It actually wasn't that bad. They had fans that kept the place pretty cool.
[img]/ubb/images/graemlins/luck.gif[/img] I hope you get yours fixed.
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08-03-2006, 09:15 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Southampton, U.K.
Posts: 8,125
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
I hope you get it fixed soon.! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img] [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/fairy2.gif[/img]
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08-03-2006, 09:48 AM
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Facebook Addict
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 39,682
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Re: Looks like AIR CONDITIONING is OUT and Can\'t Find DH to Rescue Me
This heat wave is putting a great strain on central air units. Our unit has been running a lot too.
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