I was surprised to find an organized group on Linux around here. They meet on the 3rd Thursday each month at the meeting room off the lunch room at Franciscan Skemp Hospital. I found many of them to be pretty knowledgeable on the little details that make Linux really work well. Many of them use it at work and keep up with the latest developments. Most like and use Ubuntu. Personally I have Linux Mint. It works best my AcerAspireOne (second gen).
Here is the group:

http://groups.google.com/group/lacrosselug/web/about-lclug?pli=1

I thought I might post occasionally and describe a bit of my kit building experience.

My Genesis Q5 30M transmitter kit showed up a few days ago. I felt it prudent to start small, hence the Q5. I'm the only one home at the moment so I thought this would be a good opportunity to get started on it.

I have a new soldering iron on order, FedEx claims it will be here tomorrow. I dug out my trusty old Radio Shack 40W pencil iron in the meantime. The first thing I did was find some fine grit sandpaper and scoured up the tip. Then with flux and 60/40 rosin core solder in hand I tinned it.

They just followed me home...I swear!

What a great weekend I had camping. Starting out Friday after work, I set the hammock up in at W9UUMs campsite at Lake Neshonic campground and spent some time chatting with him and enjoying some sweet corn and a campfire.
Saturday morning greeted me with a bit of fog, headed for Galesville on the Goldwing about 8AM. Met KC9ECI at his house where we then headed for Decorah Mound.