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    Jigglers: Aremac A Century Later
    Jigglers: Aremac A Century Later
    Jigglers: Aremac A Century Later
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    Jigglers: Aremac A Century Later

    By Gerald M. Weinberg

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    Finally, after 100 years, Roger Fixman explains to his grandson the great secret of Jigglers, Inc., the company that Aremac built and the riches it made for Roger and Tess.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGerald M. Weinberg
    Release dateAug 20, 2010
    ISBN9781452381411
    Jigglers: Aremac A Century Later
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    Gerald M. Weinberg

    Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) writes "nerd novels," such as The Aremac Project, Aremac Power, First Stringers, Second Stringers, The Hands of God, Freshman Murders, and Mistress of Molecules—about how brilliant people produce quality work. His novels may be found as eBooks at or on Kindle. Before taking up his science fiction career, he published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and an Introduction to General Systems Thinking. He also wrote books on leadership including Becoming a Technical Leader, The Secrets of Consulting (Foreword by Virginia Satir), More Secrets of Consulting, and the four-volume Quality Software Management series. He incorporates his knowledge of science, engineering, and human behavior into all of writing and consulting work (with writers, hi-tech researchers, and software engineers). Early in his career, he was the architect for the Mercury Project's space tracking network and designer of the world's first multiprogrammed operating system. Winner of the Warnier Prize and the Stevens Award for his writing on software quality, he is also a charter member of the Computing Hall of Fame in San Diego and the University of Nebraska Hall of Fame. The book, The Gift of Time (Fiona Charles, ed.) honors his work for his 75th birthday. His website and blogs may be found at http://www.geraldmweinberg.com.

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      Jigglers - Gerald M. Weinberg

      JIGGLERS:

      AREMAC A CENTURY LATER

      by

      Gerald M. Weinberg

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      PUBLISHED BY:

      Gerald M. Weinberg on Smashwords

      Jigglers:

      Aremac A Century Later

      Copyright © 2010 by Gerald M. Weinberg

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

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      JIGGLERS:

      AREMAC A CENTURY LATER

      Welcome to the inner sanctum, Jack. I hope you're not going to be bored.

      You could never be boring, Grandpa.

      Oh, believe me I can. And not just when I'm laid up in bed. Jack, you wouldn't even be here if your grandmother didn't think I was the most boring man on Earth.

      That can't be true, Grandpa. She loved you.

      It was two weeks after the accident, and Jack was still mourning his grandmother and father. Reasonable enough, but I had no time to be reasonable. Neither did he. Or the human race.

      Before he left my house, I would drop the world's burden on his twenty-nine-year-old shoulders, and I needed something to shock him awake. If he hadn't been mourning, I could have simply used the news about the arrival of the aliens.

      Jack, pay attention! It took me years to get Tess Myers to jump into the sack with me. And more to persuade her to wear my ring.

      His face twisted with grief. Grandpa! Don't talk about her like that. I don't believe a word of it.

      Believe it. And also believe that she would have quit my life long before that if I hadn't started holding up banks.

      He stared down at me, looking for signs of dementia, knowing I was over 120 years old. You never robbed a bank, Grandpa. Stop joking.

      I'm not joking.

      I know I'm too serious sometimes, but some things you don't joke about. Not at a time like this.

      I'm dead serious, and you'd better believe it. You're here to take over Jigglers, which should have been your father's job. But he's gone, so you're next in line. Your school days are over. It's the real world from now on—more than the real world, if you think about it—so you need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. Now! So start using all that education we've been pouring into you.

      He remained standing by the bedside, inspecting my shrinking body, . Sit down, dammit. No, wait. First turn up the frigging lights. If I'm dying, I don't need to save money on electricity.

      You've never needed to save money, Grandpa. He walked over to the wall and dutifully twisted the dimmer to full brightness.

      Shows what you know. There, that's enough light. And while you're up, open the damn window. Then sprinkle one of your grandmother's perfumes around.

      Which one? he asked, picking up one of the bottles and reading the label.

      Don't read the labels. Use your nose. Do you think you can recognize lilac?

      He clinked

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