Did you ever work and work and work and still think retirement was so far on the horizon you might never see it? That must be what its like on the Great Lakes for the keepers at Round Island and Wind Point.

JC queried about which pieces have been for sale the longest without retiring... Here's some data that answers this question.

Unfortunately my little HTML table is waaaay at the bottom of this post and I'm bamboozled as to why there's a bunch of white space between this text and it. (Bug in my html.. maybe, but its pretty durn simple ... more likely a bug in the forum software? - a tip of o' the fog hat to whomever figures this one out...)

Anyway - here's who's still on the market after a year.

Light .... Release Month .... Days on the Market Thus Far (As of 7-2-98)

... start scrolling... :-)

Round Island	01/01/95	1278
Wind Point	01/01/95	1278
Selkirk	10/01/95	1005
Brant Point	11/01/95	974
Cape Meares	02/01/96	882
Mukilteo	03/01/96	853
Charlotte-Genesee	04/01/96	822
Point Pinos	04/01/96	822
Saugerties	04/01/96	822
Chatham	04/01/96	822
Matinicus	04/01/96	822
Ida Lewis Rock	04/01/96	822
Sandy Point Shoals	07/01/96	731
Peggy's Cove	07/01/96	731
Toledo Harbor	07/01/96	731
Concord	08/01/96	700
Beavertail	03/01/97	488
Grand Traverse	03/01/97	488
Long Ships	07/01/97	366

Whew! You made it! :-)

Rgds,
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/im

Update...
Obviously the white space is now missing indicating we've resolved the problem. I suspect it has to do with the forum software parser's interpretation of characters within an HTML table. I'll post the solution in the 'Forum on this Forum' section in a couple days.

[This message has been edited by JTimothyA.]

Hi Tim,

Interesting HTML in your post. :-)

First of all. you don't need to insert a body tag in front of the table. The forum code generates that for you. So you ended up having two sets of body tags. Take your set out.

Second, you have a line break in front of every line of your table. I've never seen that before. I'm guessing that the line breaks are getting put in one after another before your table is displayed. Take them out and you should be fine.

Jeff,

Thanks for your suggestions but I don't think they tie in with the white space problem.

'Extra' Body tags have no impact, present or absent. Line breaks are inserted by the forum software, not by me.

Regardless of these two items, I don't see anything in either my source or that of the forum's parser to show where the white space is coming from. Do you?

Appreciate any responses on HTML in the 'Forum on the Forum' section. I probably should'nt have gotten into it, but needed to explain the wierdness of the initlal post.

Rgds,
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/im