diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 77b1bcb..4e242d7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-all:
-	GO111MODULE=off go build
+all: goimports vet
+
+vet:
+	@GO111MODULE=off go vet
+	@echo this go library package builds okay
+
 
 goimports:
 	goimports -w *.go
diff --git a/cmd.go b/cmd.go
index c3a861a..d20ad2b 100644
--- a/cmd.go
+++ b/cmd.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package shell
 
 import (
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
+	"os"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/go-cmd/cmd"
@@ -139,6 +139,21 @@ func RunRealtime(args []string) cmd.Status {
 	return PathRunRealtime("", args)
 }
 
+func RunEcho(cmd []string) cmd.Status {
+	result := RunQuiet(cmd)
+	pwd, _ := os.Getwd()
+	log.Warn("shell.RunEcho() cmd:", cmd, pwd)
+	log.Warn("shell.RunEcho() Exit:", result.Exit)
+	log.Warn("shell.RunEcho() Error:", result.Error)
+	for _, line := range result.Stdout {
+		log.Warn("STDOUT:", line)
+	}
+	for _, line := range result.Stderr {
+		log.Warn("STDERR:", line)
+	}
+	return result
+}
+
 // echos twice a second if anything sends to STDOUT or STDERR
 // not great, but it's really just for watching things run in real time anyway
 // TODO: fix \r handling for things like git-clone so the terminal doesn't
@@ -210,29 +225,8 @@ func PathRunRealtime(pwd string, args []string) cmd.Status {
 
 	// Block waiting for command to exit, be stopped, or be killed
 	finalStatus := <-statusChan
+	log.Info("shell.Run() notsure finalStatus", finalStatus.Cmd)
 	return findCmd.Status()
-	return finalStatus
-}
-
-func blah(cmd []string) {
-	r := Run(cmd)
-	log.Info("cmd =", r.Cmd)
-	log.Info("complete =", r.Complete)
-	log.Info("exit =", r.Exit)
-	log.Info("err =", r.Error)
-	log.Info("len(stdout+stderr) =", len(r.Stdout))
-}
-
-// run these to see confirm the sytem behaves as expected
-func RunTest() {
-	blah([]string{"ping", "-c", "3", "localhost"})
-	blah([]string{"exit", "0"})
-	blah([]string{"exit", "-1"})
-	blah([]string{"true"})
-	blah([]string{"false"})
-	blah([]string{"grep", "root", "/etc/", "/proc/cmdline", "/usr/bin/chmod"})
-	blah([]string{"grep", "root", "/proc/cmdline"})
-	fmt.Sprint("blahdone")
 }
 
 // this is stuff from a long time ago that there must be a replacement for
diff --git a/wget.go b/wget.go
index a09550b..3ba0cef 100644
--- a/wget.go
+++ b/wget.go
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func Wget(url string) *bytes.Buffer {
 
 	log.Log(INFO, "res.StatusCode: %d\n", resp.StatusCode)
 	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
-		handleError(fmt.Errorf(fmt.Sprint("%d", resp.StatusCode)), -1)
+		handleError(fmt.Errorf(fmt.Sprintf("%d", resp.StatusCode)), -1)
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/xterm.go b/xterm.go
index b5aa6f2..a867625 100644
--- a/xterm.go
+++ b/xterm.go
@@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ import (
 	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
+// not sure why I wrote this or what it is for
+// this is because I'm crazy. how crazy you ask? fucking crazy!
+// hehe. If you haven't ever written code that you look back
+// at like this and go 'what the fuck is this shit', then
+// realize that you wrote it, then go 'what the fuck is this shit'
+// and then still look at it and wonder, "how early was this. how much did I not know when I wrote this"
+// then, if you haven't done those kinds of things, then don't
+// ever fucking come up to me and tell me that I'm nuts
+// because, you are not as good as me then. It's very complicated
+// to work on very complicated things. I don't care how smart you are,
+// you can totally forget about shit you wrote and then have to come back to it later
+
+// also, what the fuck was I thinking with the function 'scanToParent()' as a function that takes
+// a pid arg? what? is this like pstree? I'm not sure what I wanted this for
+// but it sounds interesting.
 func scanToParent(pid int) (bool, string) {
 	ppid, err := GetPPID(pid)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -35,8 +50,6 @@ func scanToParent(pid int) (bool, string) {
 	case "make":
 		// keep digging for the parent xterm
 		return scanToParent(ppid)
-	default:
-		return false, comm
 	}
 	if comm == "bash" {
 	}
@@ -81,8 +94,6 @@ func Shell() string {
 	switch envsh {
 	case "/bin/bash":
 		return "bash"
-	default:
-		return envsh
 	}
 	return envsh
 }