Beans and rice actually MAKE a complete protein together, thats the real reason they work so well.

A guy at a fair fixes your cutting after 15 years and you think that's a big deal? Cutting pork butts doesn't exactly need a skill upgrade.

A foreman in Bakersfield in July telling you to quit soaking is basically telling you to watch your mortar turn to dust before you can get a brick set. Soaking does more than just cool the brick down, it keeps the brick from sucking the water right out of your mortar so you actually get a bond instead of a dry crumbly joint. Maybe in your case the bricks were already wet from the stack or you were mixing hotter than usual, but writing off soaking as a summer rule sounds like a good way to buy back a bunch of callbacks.