We slept in this morning. I try to observe at least the beginning of Saturday as a day of rest.

I went into St. Paul for the quarterly business meeting of the Minnesota Coalition of Scottish Clans, which began at 11 AM. I was there as the representative of colgaffneyis. It is a sign of positive change in America that the President of this organization is an African-American. He seems to be doing well: This was the best (i.e. shortest) meeting of the group I have attended. He accomplished this partly by careful management of the agenda, and partly by not letting anybody get at the potluck lunch until the business meeting was adjourned.

mia_mcdavid, our son J, and I went to Rosedale Mall in the afternoon. No particular shopping agenda, but the mall is a place to walk (this is Minnesota in January). We did two circuits of the entire mall, about 3 miles total.

We then relaxed with some shopping. We split up, each with our own agendas, but all ended up at Borders Bookstore. I bought a copy of Make Magazine, which I had been meaning to do gor a long time. Later this evening Mia and I watched the television show. I see a vast new time sink opening up before me :-)>

mia_mcdavid and I went out to dinner at Little Szechuan. Within seconds of opening the menu I was thinking that it looked like a place Andrew Zimmern would like. In fact, it is. It is the best Chinese food we have found in our 10 years in the Twin Cities, the first local Chinese restaurant we have found to be comparable to the great ones we knew in Chicagoland. We have filled a gastronomical gap.

Make sure you get the “black” menu, not the dumbed down take-out menu on the web site. We had pork (very thin sliced) with mashed garlic as an appetizer, then chili scallops and cumin lamb. All good. Plenty of food: The leftovers will go into my lunches at work next week.