Squeegee Ball

• Super Nanny
  
• Tennis coach

Squeegee was a rich kid, a gifted honor student and first chair musician.  He begged his parents for clarinet lessons, but they refused.  Squeegee hit about a million tennis balls against the garage door and became very good.  He pleaded for tennis lessons but his parents refused.  At age 12 he was a skilled magician, and became the richest person in the school's virtual town starting a video game business.  His dad smashed the game, and burned his favorite magic act props.  At 14 he tested as a third and fourth year college student in reading and writing.  He was placed into a special accelerated Spanish language program, as well as an accelerated math class.  When he asked his parents about attending college he was reminded that they did not go to college.  End of discussion.

His parents owned the largest Bayliner boat dealer in the world.  Year after year he pushed a broom and washed boats at the family business.  Instead of getting promoted, his dad kept him as permanent boat washer, to avoid paying a full wage to someone else.  Squeegee should have become CEO of a marine empire, but his dad chose others for business partners.  His parents divorced and Squeegee stopped attending school.   His dad's business partners robbed the dealership blind and it went bankrupt.  Squeegee worked as head boat detailer for the competitor that bought them out.

Squeegee took delivery jobs, worked as a pool cleaner and eventually ran his own window washing business.  He studied music, psychology, religion and history on his own.  Later he became a home school educator and tennis coach, and was much appreciated by his students and their parents for his "Super Nanny" powers with kids.  He taught the "three R's" - reading, writing - and recorder.  He taught children as young as four years old the ladder of the music scale.  Read his philosophy on home schooling vs. public education at "octa-views" .

^{Squeegee excelled at Bible study.  He attended a Bible study group in his own home for a year and a half, until one family tried to grasp power over the others.  He asked them to reconsider and they left in anger.  He was ostracized, slandered and villafied to where he could no longer attend the meetings he loved.  Squeegee has always tried to do what was right, even in the face of evil.}

^{His entire life even to this day, his alcoholic dad continually says he is a:  "stupid kid, worthless, good-for-nothing, hasn't got a brain in his head."  Undaunted, Squeegee persevered and landed the ultimate music gig as horn arranger and winds player for OCTAMAN.}

"And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”" Mark 6:4 ESV

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Sqeegee's window washing ad showed a bird and it said:  "C-thru glass - Bird smackin' clean - 'Cheap, cheap!'" Squeegee says: "You gotta be able to smile through the pane."

Sqeegee is a fab tennis player and coach.  A fan of Arthur Ashe, he also plays ping pong, pickle ball - and pong!

Squeegee is the eyes of "Octaman" as the official photographer and videographer.   He shoots all the band images for the CD and web.

He's also driver of the Octabus. 
When he pumps the gas pedal it sounds like -
"Sqeegee, sqeegee sqeegee!"