AKDragonFish3D

Family v. Alcohol - A personal experience/advice/guidance from a friend helping a friend with alcoholism. The past, and my regrets until now My friend, we will call him Dan for the sake of this article, has been drinking a lot, to the point where everyone has noticed that it has migrated beyond just "i like booze" to an addiction, or alcoholism, or however you want to put it. I've seen it coming since he moved back from the other side of the state for work.  I do not know what happened to him on the other side of our massive state, but something has pushed him over the edge and into a bottle.  I have mentioned it to him, my family has mentioned it to him, his family has mentioned it to him, and yet Dan just treats it as normal behavior and moves on.... but it's not normal. My regrets are not speaking my mind about this until now.  I had a chance to speak my mind last year, and the year before when he got back from the other side of the state.  Now things have escalat...

OVERVIEW: I've had this odd thought of using Orbeez or similar Water Beads for Fishing.  This odd thought spawned several questions about these little things.  For the rest of the documents, I will simply refer to them as Orbs. I will label this a Fishing Science Experiment - and if all goes well enough, more experiments will happen in the future. Note:  this will have a lot of science-like jargon in it, and it may seem a bit dry in its final version. HYPOTHESIS:    Can Orbs be used for Fishing as an artificial bait? OTHER RELATED QUESTIONS: ** What is an Orb made of? ** Will they only absorb water?  Oils?  Juices?  Fuel?  Urine?  - THIS QUESTION WILL DEFINITELY SPAWN INTO OTHER SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS **  If the water is infused (such as tea, coffee, etc), will the infusion transfer into the Orbs?   **  Will absorbed liquids leech out if placed in water? **  How will the Orbs react when being pierced for an extended...