Rodian Salinas:  

CLASS OF 1978
Shelton High SchoolClass of 1978
Shelton, WA

Rodian's Story

Oh lets see I have worked as a painter and door finisher after HS. I traveled through south America, Columbia, Brazil down through to Argentina, Then over to Europe for a while, Germany, Italy, England, Spain. Went to College for a bit to learn computers. Was into Martial Arts for a while took Judo, karate,Winchun,Chin Na. I got a job at the Washington Corrections Center in 82 and have been employeed there ever since, I promoted to Sgt. and LT. I helped develope the CORE program for instructing new employees and instructed the Security Management and Tech. Skills Lab for 5 years, I instructed DOCmail and Tactical Verbal Skills for 7 years. Since my starting there I have been on 4-5 escapes, 6 or so Major disturbances we don't call them riots as the public is sensitive about those things. I have been in a few Gang fights one where 25 BGD's jumped the rail guard in the dining hall and went to war with the crips. On another occassion me, Sgt Shriner and Bobby boon were in the middle of the yard when 20 or so bloods & Crips were going to fight and there we were in the middle, no radio's, no handcuffs none of that stuff you see in the movies just our bare hands thought for sure we were toast but we stood our ground thought If I had to go I was in good company and we would go down together. I have had to deal with death on more than one occassion once a kid not much younger than me he was maybe 22-24 hung himself when i ran down to the cell a guy in a wheel chair was trying to give him CPR, I untied the noose and put him on the floor and began CPR they don't tell you in Class that they vomit and I was covered in puke I had a pulse just for a minute or two on the kid and he looked up at me and just died I kept doing cpr untill the medics got there and stuck him full of long needles into his chest before they called it. But the Worst one was when an inmate who had cancer had his lungs burst and blood and chuncks of his lung were projected out it was like helter skelter I never new a human being had so much blood it was gawd awful. So to keep my sanity I was into guns for a while collected them and shot them but after the Stockton Killings people looked funny at you when you said you had more than one gun. Soooooo I got into computers and collected them I have about 12 setup now that I do differet things with. I have one for the internet that if a virus crashes it Its ok I have lost nothing but some address, I have a computer for CAD/CAM, Video and Video transcoding, I have one for doing Audio Books which I am hoping in the next 8 months or so to publish my first Audio Book I have had to collect alot of samples and Copyright free m...Expand for more
usic, I bought a sound card pro version for $499 I have 2 terabytes of storage if that means anything to you, I still have my old Amiga computers and even a TRS 80 model 4 if you can believe that. I also build/program and install Office Suites on computers, I can image drives, recover lost or deleted partitions and info or I can wipe out a drive so that it is unrecoverable by normal means, I have worked on networks with Novell, Linux, Windows and Old Dos, I have 3 laptops in addition to my desktops, I have reprogramed USB drives with a collection of Software that I have copyrighted and sold a ton of them on E-bay, right now I am reprograming MP4 players that will play vidz,Music,pix,take photos,record video and if you plug it into a puter will act like a USB drive with my Office in a pocket software kewlness. I wrote a database that tracks 2,000 inmates but can do 500,000 but the state won't pay me :-( I wrote some software for the counselors that would do a criminal history of the inmates in 20 sec compared to the 45 min per inmate times 600 a month that they have to process but they wouldn't pay me for that one either I was looking at making about $320k a year for that :-( I am working on one now that I will get paid for it take each dept and puts it into a 3d universe then does behind the scene magic for database tracking and does a 3d rendering of the institution down to the windows and cells should be pretty good once its done to many items to describe but does full key, tool control, HR, Custody, Budget, payroll staff and inmate, Maint. etc. etc. I like spending time on the beach something about the constant surge of the waves is relaxing, I do digital photography not real good at it but not bad either. I have done some traveling I like the U.S. and you can't really appreciate it until you have been over to another country sure there is Canada and Mexico, but go to costa rica, Columbia, Brazil during Carnival! New Orleans don't have nothing on these folks when it comes to a giant party. Philipines I thought I died and went to heaven I have never ever been treated so nice in my entire life, They took care of me and my family showed us the sites, did our laundry cooked all our meals threw us 2 big pig roasts, took us to the Chocolate hills, Riverboat rides to site see water falls (small water falls) took us to MacArthur park, I soaked in the sea water which was 85 degrees warm and they swam out cold beers to me couldn't believe it. You can feed 20 philipinos at McDonald's for about 20 bucks US. The Cold beers were 18 cents their rum was 1.25 US I had fresh mangos for breakfast and lots of chicken and rice. Chow4now
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