Here is what I’ve learned 3 months in.  Beards are easy.  Anybody can grow a beard.  It’s the moustache that gets you.  It’s the incessant curling of the hair that gets in between your teeth.  Errant food can get caught in your beard, but it’s the moustache where the food takes up residence.  It’s more absorbant than a sponge.  When I eat soup, the moustache eats first and then like a robin feeding her young, the remainder makes it into my mouth.