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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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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11-19-2002, 03:33 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Yesterday began another chapter in our kitchen renovation/expansion. A crew of two showed up with the designer yesterday (Monday) at 7:30AM sending my wife and daughter scrambling upstairs to dress. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] These two guys worked non-stop for 7 hours. No coffee breaks, no lunch break. When they left at the end of the first day they had removed: All the cabinets and counters. The sink was gone and all appliances unhooked and also removed. The wall between the ol' kitchen and ol' dining room was gone. The ol' dinning floor carpet and about half the kitchen vinyl floor were ripped up and removed. There are holes in the ceiling where soffits and lights had been with wires hanging out.
End of day one.
[ 12-10-2002, 05:09 PM: Message edited by: Disnydad ]
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11-19-2002, 03:39 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Day two:
The crew was here at 7:30 on the dot. The girls were dressed this time. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Tuesday the rest of the kitchen floor and half of the hallway to the front door were removed. Holes were cut and wires run to the new lights and switches. The subfloor was installed in the kitchen. The tile floor design was layed out to get the correct spacing.
Once again they worked straight through w/o breaks for 7 hours.
When they leave they take a van full of trash with them and sweep out the work area and garage.
End of day two.
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11-19-2002, 06:47 PM
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Wannabe Snowbird
Join Date: May 2002
Concierge Level: 7
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
So far, so good!
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11-19-2002, 09:29 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Sounds great Don! Send 'em down here when your work's done [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] .
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11-19-2002, 10:25 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
Concierge Level: 7
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
it's amazing how they work without a breack. Glad things are going well.
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11-19-2002, 10:31 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
Posts: 3,406
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Wow, sounds like things are moving right along.
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11-19-2002, 11:31 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Richardson, TX
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 3,357
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Sounds like a great crew. Hope it keeps going that way.
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11-20-2002, 03:00 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Day Three
Day three has come to a close. The holes in the ceiling and walls have been patched. The recessed ceiling lights were installed. The tile floor is at the 1/3 mark cemented down.
In addition the over the stove microwave came in and I picked it up.
These 2 guys are amazing. They were here again right on time. 7 hours straight again. We have even offered them coffee, but all they drink is water. And they only listen to jazz not too loud.
As for me: I got the rain gutters cleaned. Put new hangers up and hung the kids bikes up in the garage for the winter. I also took all the screens off the house and into the garden shed. And you thought all I did was post on the boards. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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11-21-2002, 02:56 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Day 4
Todays progress. The cabinets were delivered!!! The garage is packed. More wiring was hooked up and turned on (plugs and switches. The stove wiring was run and will be hooked up tomorrow). The hole patches got another coat. The hallway floor to the front door got pulled up. The main kitchen tile will be finished tomorrow morning the they will start grouting. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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11-21-2002, 03:26 PM
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Community Rank: Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Glad things are still going so well for you Don!
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11-21-2002, 03:33 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Trois-Rivieres,Quebec,Canada
Posts: 2,687
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Don, always amasing [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
We have done several renovation here and believe me they took coffe break [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img]
Can't wait to read more update [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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11-21-2002, 03:49 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: jacksonville, fl usa
Concierge Level: 3
Posts: 5,790
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Don, can't wait for that kitchen to get finished. Just let us all know exactly when we should make our plans to head up that way for the feast you'll be cooking in your new kitchen digs. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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11-21-2002, 10:17 PM
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Recovering VMK Addict!
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Thornton, CO
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Posts: 13,087
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Don, I can hardly wait to see your new kitchen! It sounds like you hired the right crew.
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<font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, Arial">Naw, I know you work a lot harder than I do! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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11-21-2002, 11:41 PM
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Mrs. Jack Sparrow
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Aboard the Black Pearl
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
Will there be Pictures? If so Cool. does this mean thanksgiving Dinner is at your house this year? [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]
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11-22-2002, 02:14 PM
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Community Rank: Globetrotter
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: East Haven, CT, USA
Posts: 3,406
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Re: Kitchen progress-UPDATE day 13
sounds like you have a great crew working for you there. They almost sound too good to be true. I'm sure there are lots of homeowners who were wishing they had hired these guys.
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