First of all a quick recap of some of the must have day to day apps that I find myself using all day long.

1.Facebook -For obvious reasons

2. Tweetie – I find this to be the BEST twitter app in the app store for its price. ($2.99) It has everything you need, from adding picture, re tweeting and showing people your current location.

3.AIM (free version) – If you don’t mind putting up with some ads from time to time, the free version on AIM (Aol Instant Messenger) gives you everything you need to keep in touch with people from your Iphone! It even has push notifications!

4.Flickr – This app just came out last week and it is VERY polished! They had a few issues at first but did a quite update to fix them! If you want a easy way to publish picture to your feed, look no further

5.Pandora- Im sure you all know what pandora is, this gives you all the things of the online version but it uses wifi, and 3g so you can plug it in in your car and rock out on the go!

6. Digg – This is a recent app that got released in the past 24 hours! All of you know the awesome site http://www.digg.com, and now there is a FREE Iphone app that I think is almost better then the original site! You can still bookmark storys and like or dislike them. A must pick up for all digg fans.

Now to the fun part, the gadgets and games! I think my fiance will agree that this is definitely my weakness!

1. Doodle jump – Doodle jump is a very easy and simple to learn game that is horribly addicting! The basic controls of the game and moving your iphone side to side as your character moved higher and higher from block to block gaining points the higher he goes. Along the way you will find power-ups that can launch you higher into the air and more! As well as some monsters that you are able to shoot out of your way! Back of monsters! For 99c it is a must buy for anymore that has spare time on your hands.

2. N.O.V.A – N.o.v.a is a first person shooter for the iphone, well let me back up a bit, the BEST first person shooter that is available for the iphone. It has your typical alien vs marine type storyline. Many of said it is comparable to the first halo as well as its storyline! you basically have to play this game to believe it. Controls are flawless and the game play time is insanely long, you wont be able to put it down. The price tag is currently 4.99$ and worth every penny.

3. GT Racing – The best (in my opinion racing game available for the iphone. Awesome different choices of controls, cars, tracks and more. You can even play head to head online with people all over the world via wi-fi.

Day to day I find that the app store grows. With a wide selection from games to things to help balance your budget, schedule and more. If you own an iphone or itouch and are not familiar with the app store I suggest you do! Or maybe not if your low on cash, because you might see the money start flying away.

Cheers

Sb

-Album Produced By Sean Bartley-

Engineered By Sean Bartley

Album Dedicated to: Brian Bartley, Deb Bartley-Ullom, Maggie Swanson

• Hope
• Breaking Point
• Breathe
• Holy Theory
• Made in the U.S.A
• See It Comin
• Past Is Not Past
• Total Objection
• So Surreal

Enjoy all, I will keep this short.

This album was a long, long work in progress. Many feelings and emotions were lived in the making of this. From the passing of my father, to the meeting of the love of my life.

I hope you all take the journey I took when producing this album for you all.

Spread the word, tell your friends, Sean Bartley’s Album is out!

- sb

Hey all, I just wanted to share with you a very intense and strange dream that I had last night. I don’t normally share this type of stuff but this is just so vivid in my mind and I remember alot of details so im going to share its strangeness…

The dream started off as a vacation to Iraq (don’t ask me why we were doing this we just were) We were there looking at different locations. The US military presence was very low, if not non-present at all. I remember going into a little hut type location for lunch, or so we thought. We (and when I say we I am talking about me and my friend David from way back in elementary school.) sat down and a group of people came up to us and asked us to stand up. We knew there was a lot of religious traditions and such that we needed to follow, so we figured it would be in our best interest to get up as they asked. As we got up a truck pulled up next to this area that we were in. They asked us to get into the truck. I remember looking at David in confusion as we both just got in.

The memory gets a little fuzzy at this point but I do remember arriving at a big, and I mean HUGE field of just sand. As far as the eye could see it was just SAND. They took us out and paraded us over to a shaded area behind the truck and sat us down. They walked away and as they did we both stood up, they all quickly started shooting into the air and demanding us to get back down. So we did. There were most likely 20-30 men that had taken us out there at this point and they were all looking around talking with each other as me and David sat their in total fear…

The next thing I know there is another large truck full of men, with some American looking men on the truck with them. Blindfolded.  They seemed to be journalists or something but at this point we did not care.

I them woke up, and had to take a restroom break…in my mind as im getting up and out of bed I’m thinking about my dream and how happy I was that it was over, or so I thought….

I went back to bed and was so tired I feel right back asleep…

I appeared RIGHT BACK into my dream, moments if not SECONDS from where it left off and I remember feeling the same fear as before.

Just as I returned, as if I hit pause on my DVD player or something, they took some of the Americans off the truck and were sitting them down on their knees. Right as this happened a man from behind started to shoot them, all of them. At this point in my dream I felt it was 110% real. I was scared for my life and I actually had thoughts in my mind like, this is it, im gonig to die, this is the end, etc etc…Horrible I know…

Right as one of them men came and took us, walked us towards the areas where the previous men had been killed, I woke up again. This time I was sweating and really freaking out and happy to be alive! I was NOT going back to sleep! Not this time, this dream was OVER!

So for me  felt like sharing this with all of you, not to freak you out, but to basically get it off my chest! It was one of the strangest, weird, real and just downright disturbing dreams I have ever had in my entire life.

And to think I was watching the food networks before bed, strange!

sb

“For those of you that know Sean Bartley, one of the amazing baristas at journeys coffeehouse, you will know that Sean has always seemed to have this long hair that he loves.  Just over a week ago now two of us were joking with Sean on shaving his head… the matter quickly came to that if we could raise $500 basically overnight he would shave his head and donate all of the money to breast cancer research.  To all of our amazement we were able to raise not $500 but over $1000.

So today we gathered at journeys coffeehouse as well as online via a live streaming of the event to share in this amazing story.  Sean has is hair dresser of many years, Kathy, come out to do the honors.  We had several breast cancer survivors join us in person as well as on the live stream.

We just wanted to share the story and one man’s step in helping fight to find a cure.  Please don’t let the fight end with just one event, keep on fighting for the cure.

For those that are on Facebook, there is a full photo collection here.”

Thanks Dan for the awesome conclusion to an awesome day and cause! I was honored to do this!

sb

Tonight was a typical summer night that has to happen once a year. A night out at the fair. This includes the following:

1. Eating food that makes your stomach feel like its eating itself.

2. Looking at the people walking around feeling glad about your life and hoping people are blessed with non-weired syndrome.

3.Watching tigers perform tricks, and sit there hoping… I MEAN wondering if the tigers are going to eat the trainers.

All in all a typical night out at the fair, oh and if that was not fun enough I GET TO GO AGAIN this friday. How lucky could one be…

Now that I am home relaxing, im taking in the final hours im a long haired freak! Prepping my hair by getting all the big curls out and making sure its well conditioned for the cut tomorrow! Im actully pretty stoked about tomorrow, yea, im cutting off my hair but I am so proud like I said before to be giving so much money to a awesome cause!

You can view the hair cut LIVE TOMORROW at 5:30pm EST at this link! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journeyscoffee

Off for the night now. Time to get some rest and relaxation. I get to open the shop tomorrow morning bright and early, it’s been awhile so I might be dead! Like I have always said before, yes im getting up early…but the best place to be when you are sleepy is around good coffee.

Have a good night all! And if you have nothing else to do in life, think about giving back to people. It makes you feel better then recieving anything in the world!

sb

So as most of you know I have had long hair for most of my life. In fact the only time I have not was a very short time in middle school.  My hair has made me pretty much the person I am today.

Early last week I said that I would cut of all my hair if we raised 500$ in the name of breast cancer awareness. I am proud to say that we have raised well over 1,000$ at this point and thats bad news for the fate of my long curly locks!

This coming thursday at 5:30pm EST, I will be rolling up my sleves, taking a deep breath and cutting of the hair that I have had for almost 12 years!

I am totally happy that I could raise money for a awesome cause! To me now, its much more than the hair, its about doing something that can make a diffrence!

I just wanted to post this in advance so that if anyone wants to come be a part of the fun, it will be taking place at JourneysCoffee house This Thursday at 5:30pm. If you CANT make it in person you can watch the LIVE online feed of the event at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journeyscoffee. Of course picture will also follow!

See you all next time, and hey I might be about 20 pounds lighter!

Love to all!

sb

This is going to be a quick and simple post, becasue I need somewhere to rant about this new starbucks campain.

Starbucks has now come up with the idea that people are going to buy instant coffee from them. Scary thing is, they are right!

They have finally gone off the coffee deep end. Every little TINY bit of respect I was slowly gaining from starbucks has 

now just been flushged down the drain. 

First of all there is NO SUCH THING as a FRESH cup of instant coffee, I dont care how many words Starbucks throws in a Stupid internet commercial (http://www.starbucks.com/coffee/c17-instant-coffee.aspx) saying all kinds of technical words that they know regular Starbucks customers are going to belive and fall for…They are lying to you. It is just not possible. 

The only way to get a fresh cup of coffee is from FRESH GROUND BEANS. On location, and brewed right in from of you.

Now I know alot of people are not going to care, becasue they are not the coffee geek that I am, but what they need to think about is that this VIA instant brew is not cheep, and if you really want a fresh cup of coffee, your going to STILL save money by stopping by your local coffee house and getting one. One that has been hand mande and cared for. 

Starbucks has finally resorted to a plain and simple method of just wanting to make more money. MORE MONEY. 

They may tell 

you that they care about your cup of coffee, but if you buy this new instant brew, your only going to be instnaly flushing 

your money down the pooper on a poorly cared for fash, cup of muck.

sb

For the people here that know me very well, you know that I use a site called Twitter.

Twitter is a socal networking and “micro” blogging platform that lets you post thoughts, ideas and even what your doing at that very moment to people all over the world. 

Some people come to me and ask me why I use twitter and why do I even care what people are doing, or why should I care to share what i am doing with everyone else. Im going to explain to you why I use twitter and why ever since I was introduced to twitter, its been inpossible not to go a day without a “tweet”.

First of all twitter is a awesome way to share quick feeling with anyone. Its easy for me rather than to write a long, full length blog about something, to just write a quick comment of rant that I can send out in real time, instantly to people. Its a awesome way for you to tell people what your doing any why your fed up with something, you always can get direct or @replys from people that may or may not feel the same way. Its a awesome conversation starter, or something just to let people know how you feel on a quick basis.

Another way twitter is usefull to me is that I can see conversations in real time, from all around the world. You can even go to http://search.twitter.com and type in anything that is of intrest to you and find out what people are saying about it. You can join the conversations of just observe. Eather way, if your thinking of doing something or gonig somewhere or even thinking you might want to see a movie, twitter is a good way to find out fast if its even worth your time by reading thing people people all over.

Another think i have reall loved about twitter is the awesome links that have been shared. I have seen so much new, storys, and picture/movies that i would of never found on my own through twitter. You can post links to basicly anything you want and have them shared to the twitter world.

You can use google for quick awnsers to your questions, or in my case i like to use twitter to ask a question. With google you always get the awnsers your looking for right away, but with twitter you get the awnser with a personal responce, that my friends its  awesome networking!

Your business can also prosper from twitter. Right now are currently using twitter for Journeys Coffee. We are using it to get our twitter followers involved and into the shop for diffrent discounts and such so that they can become more intrested. Also as far as your business goes, you can track what people are saying about your company on twitter. Get real time awnsers to issues you may be having, or things you may want to work on in the future.

The more I use twitter, the more I love it. The more i learn from people and the more I grow. 

I have meet some awesome people on twitter…You should too!

http://www.twitter.com/seanbartley

Sean

Who would think that a simple cup of coffee could do much more than give you tour daily fix or quick pick me up.

Working with coffee has always made me happy. I love everything about coffee. The preperarion of quality espeseo, perfecting the art of milk preperation and latte art, the taste of differnt blends, but somthing makes the idea of a coffee house even better for me every time I think of it.

When I have a customer come up and just want their coffee and to be on their way, that’s fine and totally their choice, tho when people spark quality conversation, that’s where I’m coming from. Two people can learn so much from eachother, just over the bar. You can pick someone up if there having a bad day, and they can do the same for you.

A quality cup of coffee only STARTS with the beans. There is a awesome coffee house on the west coast called “counter culture” and I love that name becuae it’s true. It’s a culture of coffee, people and life. That is why a coffee house will always be my place to explore mind and body. And a good cup of coffee if all works out well.

Latte!
Sean