Hi. My name is Roger. I live in Johannesburg. That it, until yesterday, when I drove into the far north, beyond the boerewors curtain, to live in Pretoria North in a new monastic community ("new" because they allow women. Gotta love progress!).

I usually have an interesting reaction when I tell people I'm moving. In September last year I did some thinking around my job (freelance web development) and realised that although there's much I enjoy about it - and will probably always be doing some web development, it's not the thing I want to spend most of my time on. And so a period of asking the question, "Well, now what?" ensued. I had a few options: changing jobs and working in a creative TV/multimedia environment as a creative director, moving to Cape Town...or Pretoria North.

When I tell people about the options I was looking at, they understand the creative director; they understand Cape Town. When I mention Pretoria North they say, "What?! You're moving where?!" It's kinda fun!

I've written a little about this at my other blog where I write about the future of Church in South Africa, where I will continue writing this year - usually on more thought-out subjects (like "Chaos theory, fractals and the emerging church conversation").

So here I stand - beyond the curtain, which already has its advantages: plenty of biltong and boerewors...and awesome vetkoek! Life is good :)