Harrumbph

Everyone I've met, no matter how jaded, has a talisman of some fancy.  This is one of mine.

In 1996, while sweating away in a foundry, I made this figure to embellish my chasing station.  It was welded to my bench & stared while I worked.  One day my boss came around and said "you'll never get anywhere doing your best work on someone else's ideas."  When that job came to an end, I took this statuette with me.  It's sitting on the edge of a bookshelf today, staring at me still.