diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 24c853d..39b0099 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 /node_modules/
 /coverage/
 /syncd/
+*.log
diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c74d682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.sock
diff --git a/examples/client.mjs b/examples/client.mjs
index 5539573..443e11b 100644
--- a/examples/client.mjs
+++ b/examples/client.mjs
@@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ import Consumer from '../src/consumer'
 
 const USOCKET = __dirname + '/sample.sock'
 
-const socket1 = new Consumer(USOCKET)
-const socket2 = new Consumer(USOCKET)
+const client1= new Consumer(USOCKET, {log:true,name:'example-consumer1' })
+const client2 = new Consumer(USOCKET, {log:true,name:'example-consumer2'})
 
-let packet1 = {name: 'socket1', cmd:'doit', data:'data sent by socket1'}
-let packet2 = {name: 'socket2', cmd:'doit', data:'data sent by socket2'}
+let packet1 = {name: 'client1', cmd:'doit', data:'data sent by client1'}
+let packet2 = {name: 'client2', cmd:'doit', data:'data sent by client2'}
 
-//  This is your socket handler waiting on a message to do something
+// This is your client handler object waiting on a message to do something
 let app = {
   processIt: function processPacket (packet) {
-    console.log('incoming packet from socket to process')
+    console.log('your custom processing of incoming packet')
     console.dir(packet)
   },
   ucpp: 'processIt'
@@ -20,12 +20,8 @@ let app = {
 ;
 (async () => {
 
-  await socket1.connect()
-  await socket2.connect()
-  await socket1.listen(app)
-  await socket2.listen(app)
-  socket1.send(packet1)
-  socket2.send(packet2)
+  await Promise.all([client1.connect(app),client2.connect(app)])
+  await Promise.all([client1.send(packet1),client2.send(packet2)])
 
 })().catch(err => {
   console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
diff --git a/examples/server.mjs b/examples/server.mjs
index 1b40775..05768d8 100644
--- a/examples/server.mjs
+++ b/examples/server.mjs
@@ -2,20 +2,19 @@ import { Socket } from '../src'
 
 const USOCKET = __dirname + '/sample.sock'
 
-console.log(USOCKET)
 ;
 (async () => {
 
   class Test {
-    constructor(opts={}) {
-      this.socket = new Socket(USOCKET)
-      this.uspp = opts.uspp || 'processPacket'
+    constructor() {
+      this.socket = new Socket(USOCKET,{name:'example-socket'})
     }
 
     async processPacket(packet) {
       console.log('packet being processed')
       console.dir(packet)
-      return await this[packet.cmd](packet.data,packet.name)
+      if (packet.cmd) return await this[packet.cmd](packet.data,packet.name)
+      return  {error: 'no command in packet', packet: packet }
     }
 
     async doit(data,name) {
@@ -27,10 +26,9 @@ console.log(USOCKET)
       return(res)
     }
 
-    init() { this.socket.create(this)}
+    async init() { return this.socket.create(this)}
   }
 
-
   let test = new Test()
   await test.init()
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9adfb76..110e5b8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
     "testw": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs --watch --recurse --watch-extensions mjs",
     "test": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs",
     "testci": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha  --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true",
-    "s": "node -r @std/esm  examples/server",
+    "s": "node -r @std/esm  examples/server | ./node_modules/.bin/bunyan",
     "devs": "./node_modules/.bin/nodemon -r @std/esm -e mjs  examples/server",
-    "c": "node -r @std/esm  examples/client"
+    "c": "node -r @std/esm  examples/client | ./node_modules/.bin/bunyan -o short"
   },
   "author": "David Kebler",
   "license": "MIT",
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "better-try-catch": "^0.6.2",
+    "bunyan": "^1.8.12",
     "death": "^1.1.0",
     "simple-node-logger": "^0.93.33"
   }
diff --git a/src/consumer.mjs b/src/consumer.mjs
index 4416b00..bba1864 100644
--- a/src/consumer.mjs
+++ b/src/consumer.mjs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Socket } from 'net'
 import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+import bunyan from 'bunyan'
 
 export default class Consumer extends Socket {
   constructor (path, opts={}) {
@@ -7,6 +8,14 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
     this.path = path
     this.keepAlive = opts.keepAlive ? opts.keepAlive : true
     this._ready = false
+    this.timeout = opts.timeout || 1000
+    this.wait = opts.wait || 30
+    this.log_file=opts.log_file || './log.log'
+    this.log_opts = {streams:[]}
+    this.log_opts.name = opts.name ? opts.name : 'uci-unix-socket-consumer'
+    this.log_opts.streams.push({level: 'info',path: this.log_file })
+    if (opts.log) this.log_opts.streams.push({level: 'info',stream: process.stdout})
+    this.log = bunyan.createLogger(this.log_opts)
   }
 
   ready() {return this._ready}
@@ -14,38 +23,42 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
   async connect (app) {
 
     await this.listen(app)
-    console.log('consumer: listening')
+    this.log.info('listening')
 
-    await super.connect({ path: this.path })
-    console.log(`consumer: connected to ${this.path}`)
-    this.setKeepAlive(this.keepAlive)
+    return new Promise( (resolve,reject) => {
 
-    this.on('error', (error) => {
-      'client socket error \n ', error.code
+      this.on('error', (err) => {
+        reject(err)
+      })
+
+      super.connect({ path: this.path }, async () => {
+        this.log.info({path:this.path},'connecting')
+        this.setKeepAlive(this.keepAlive)
+        let [err, res] = await btc(isReady).bind(this)(this.ready.bind(this), this.wait, this.timeout)
+        if (err) reject(err)
+        this.log.info('handshake done, connected')
+        resolve(res)
+      })
     })
 
-    return await isReady(this.ready.bind(this))
-
   }
 
   async send(packet) {
     let [err, strbuf] = btc(JSON.stringify)(packet)
     if (!err) {
-      // await promisify(this.write)(strbuf)
-      console.log('attempting to send')
-      // console.log(await this.write(strbuf))
-      let res = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => { //returning promise
+      this.log.info({packet:packet},'attempting to send packet to socket')
+
+      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
         this.write(strbuf, (err) => {
           if (err) reject(err)
           else resolve('complete')
         })
       })
-      console.log('send is', res)
     }
-    else { console.log(`bad packet JSON syntax \n ${packet} \n${err}`)}
+    else { this.log.info({packet:packet}, 'bad packet JSON syntax')}
   }
 
-  async listen (app) {
+  async listen (app={}) {
     this.on('data', async (buf) => {
       let [err, packet] = btc(JSON.parse)(buf.toString())
       if (!err) {
@@ -57,28 +70,28 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
         if (!app[app.ucpp]) {
           app.ucpp = 'processPacket'
           app.processPacket =  async (packet) => {
-            console.log('incoming packet from socket')
-            console.dir(packet)
+            this.log.info({packet:packet},'incoming packet from socket')
             return packet }
         }
         app[app.ucpp](packet) // process the packet
       }
-      else { console.log(`bad packet JSON syntax \n ${buf.toString()}`)}
+      else { this.log.info({buf: buf.toString()},'bad packet JSON syntax')}
     })
   }
 
 }  // end class
 
 // wait for handshake from socket
-function isReady(ready) {
+function isReady(ready, wait=30, timeout=1000) {
+  let log = this.log
   let time = 0
-  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     (function waitReady(){
-      if (time > 3000) return reject('timeout')
+      if (time > timeout) return reject('timeout trying to connect')
       if (ready()) return resolve('ready')
-      console.log('waiting for 30ms')
+      log.info('waiting for 30ms for handshake')
       time += 30
-      setTimeout(waitReady, 30)
+      setTimeout(waitReady, wait)
     })()
   })
 }
diff --git a/src/socket.mjs b/src/socket.mjs
index 58bc5a4..3427d92 100644
--- a/src/socket.mjs
+++ b/src/socket.mjs
@@ -1,92 +1,102 @@
 import { Server } from 'net'
 import { unlink as fileDelete } from 'fs'
 import btc from 'better-try-catch'
-import Logger from 'simple-node-logger'
 import ON_DEATH from 'death' //this is intentionally ugly
-
-let logger = {
-  logFilePath:'logfile.log',
-  timestampFormat:'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss.SSS'
-}
+import bunyan from 'bunyan'
 
 export default class Socket extends Server {
   constructor (path, opts={}) {
     super()
     this.path = path
-    if (opts.log) {
-      this.log = opts.log
-      this.logger = Logger.createSimpleLogger(opts.logger ?  opts.logger: logger)
-    }
+    this.log_file=opts.log_file || './log.log'
+    this.log_opts = {streams:[]}
+    this.log_opts.name = opts.name ? opts.name : 'uci-unix-socket-consumer'
+    this.log_opts.streams.push({level: 'info',path: this.log_file })
+    if (opts.log) this.log_opts.streams.push({level: 'info',stream: process.stdout})
+    this.log = bunyan.createLogger(this.log_opts)
+
   } // end constructor
 
 
-  async create ( app ) {
+  async create (app={}) {
 
-    this.on('error', async (err) => {
-      // recover from socket file that was not removed
-      if (err.code === 'EADDRINUSE') {
-        console.log(`socket path ${this.path} already exists...deleting`)
-        await fileDelete(this.path)
-        await this.listen(this.path)
-        return Promise.resolve(err.code)
-      }
-      // otherwise fatally exit
-      console.log('error creating socket: ',err.code)
-      return Promise.reject(err.code)
-    })
+    return new Promise( (resolve,reject) => {
 
-    //
-    this.once('listening', async () => {
-      console.log(`socket created at ${this.path}`)
+      ON_DEATH( async () => {
+        this.log.info('\nhe\'s dead jim')
+        await this.destroy()
 
-      // this gets called for each client connection and is unique to each
-      this.once('connection', (socket) => {
-        console.log('server: new consumer connected')
+      })
 
-        socket.on('data', async (buf) => {
-          let [err, packet] = btc(JSON.parse)(buf.toString())
-          if (!err) {
-            if (this.log) this.logger.info(`data packet received to socket \n ${packet}`)
+      process.once('SIGUSR2', async () => {
+        await this.destroy
+        process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGUSR2')
+      })
 
-            // set default packet processing
-            app.uspp = app.uspp || 'processPacket'
-            if (!app[app.uspp]) {
-              app.uspp = 'processPacket'
-              app.processPacket =  async (packet) => {
-                packet.res='echoed'
-                return packet }
+      this.on('error', async (err) => {
+        // recover from socket file that was not removed
+        if (err.code === 'EADDRINUSE') {
+          this.log.info({socket: this.path}, 'already exists...deleting')
+          await fileDelete(this.path)
+          return await this.listen(this.path, app)
+        }
+        // otherwise fatally exit
+        this.log.info(err, 'creating socket')
+        reject(err)
+      })
+
+      this.listen(this.path, async (err, res) => {
+
+        if (err) reject(err)
+        // this gets called for each client connection and is unique to each
+        this.on('connection', (socket) => {
+          this.log.info('server: new consumer connecting')
+
+          socket.on('data', async (buf) => {
+            let [err, packet] = btc(JSON.parse)(buf.toString())
+            if (!err) {
+              if (this.log) this.logger.info(`data packet received to socket \n ${packet}`)
+              this.log.info({packet:packet},'Server: packet received to socket')
+
+              // set default packet processing
+              app.uspp = app.uspp || 'processPacket'
+              if (!app[app.uspp]) {
+                app.uspp = 'processPacket'
+                app.processPacket =  async (packet) => {
+                  packet.res='echoed'
+                  this.log.info({packet:packet},'packet being sent to consumer')
+                  return packet }
+              }
+
+              socket.write(JSON.stringify(await app[app.uspp].bind(app)(packet)))
+            }
+            else {
+              this.log.info(`bad packet JSON syntax \n ${buf.toString()}`)
+              let error = {
+                error: 'bad packet JSON syntax sent',
+                packet: buf.toString()
+              }
+              socket.write(JSON.stringify(error))
             }
 
-            socket.write(JSON.stringify(await app[app.uspp].bind(app)(packet)))
-          }
-          else { console.log(`bad packet JSON syntax \n ${buf.toString()}`)}
-
-        }) // end incoming data listerner
-        socket.write('{"ready":true}')
-      }) // end connected consumer
-    }) // end socket listening listener
-
-    // start it
-    await this.listen(this.path)
-
-    // if socket is terminated then shutdown gracefully
-    ON_DEATH( async () => {
-      await this.destroy()
-    })
-
-    process.once('SIGUSR2', async () => {
-      await this.destroy
-      process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGUSR2')
+          }) // end incoming data listerner
+          this.log.info('Server: sending handshake to consumer')
+          socket.write('{"ready":true}')
+        }) // end connected consumer
 
+        this.log.info({socket: this.path},'socket created')
+        resolve(res)
+      })
     })
 
   } // end create
 
+
   async destroy () {
 
-    console.log('\nclosing down socket')
+    this.log.info('closing down socket')
     await this.close()
-    console.log('\n all connections closed....exiting')
+    this.log.info('all connections closed....exiting')
     process.exit()
 
   } // end destroy
diff --git a/test/.gitignore b/test/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c74d682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*.sock
diff --git a/test/socket.mjs b/test/socket.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..790d6d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/socket.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { Socket } from '../src'
+
+const USOCKET = __dirname + '/sample.sock'
+
+let socket = new Socket(USOCKET)
+
+const app = {
+  uspp: 'sprocessPacket',
+  sprocessPacket: async function (packet) {
+    packet.processed = true
+    console.log('server: packet processed')
+    console.dir(packet)
+    return packet
+  }
+}
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  await socket.create(app)
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/test/socket.test.mjs b/test/socket.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bfb6246
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/socket.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+import { spawn } from 'child_process'
+import chai from 'chai'
+import chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
+chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
+const expect = chai.expect
+
+import { Consumer } from '../src'
+
+const USOCKET = __dirname + '/sample.sock'
+
+let consumer = new Consumer(USOCKET)
+
+const app = {
+  ucpp: 'cprocessPacket',
+  cprocessPacket: async function (packet) {
+    if (packet.processed) consumer.emit(packet.cmd,packet.payload)
+  }
+}
+
+const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  let socket ={}
+
+  before(async function(){
+    socket = spawn('node',['-r', '@std/esm', './test/socket'])
+    await delay(500) // wait for socket to get going
+  })
+
+  after(async function(){
+    socket.kill()
+  })
+
+  it('Connects and Processes some payload', async function () {
+
+    console.log('connection is ',await consumer.connect(app))
+    consumer.on('test1', function(payload){
+      expect(payload).to.equal('payload1')
+    })
+    let packet = {id: 'test consumer', cmd:'test1', payload:'payload1'}
+    consumer.send(packet)
+  })
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})