Homeless in Vancouver: New concrete needs rest and plenty of fluids

This concrete floor looks fine to me. It looks, in fact, like a healthy dog’s nose—wet and shiny.

However the floor is being “cured”—and don’t expect any wisdom from me on that subject. Until recently, I took cement to be a synonym for concrete, when in fact cement is one of the ingredients in concrete.

I would guess, though, that curing a concrete floor is not the same as curing a patient, any more than fixing a car is like fixing a cat.

That said, it appears that curing concrete requires patience. This South Granville property was left open at both ends all night to facilitate the process.

Concrete knowledge versus trivial

It looks like the final act in a long drawn out renovation of what was, for many years, a “dollar” store, which is a category of bargain store that partially fulfills the roles of hardware store and drug store (minus the drugs).

I call it a renovation but it appears that construction workers completely gutted the interior two stories and rebuilt everything fresh, right down to the new concrete floor.

A friend reading over my shoulder began explaining to me about curing concrete but I successfully blocked out what he was trying to tell me.

I worry that useless trivia will take precious brain space away from practical knowledge like details of the various Pokémon species. For instance, Feebas, a type of fish, evolve into a sort of eel known as Milotic—good to know right?

Wikipedia pegs the total number of species at 719 but it’s hard to arrive at a concrete number.