diff --git a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
index 00ea9c9..db65128 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
@@ -74,17 +74,18 @@ proc newJobQueue*[T](maxItems: int = 0, taskpool: Taskpool = Taskpool.new()): Jo
   asyncSpawn(processJobs(result))
 
 template checkJobArgs*[T](exp: seq[T]): OpenArrayHolder[T] =
-  static:
-    echo "checkJobArgs::SEQ: ", $typeof(exp)
-  let val = exp
+  # static:
+  #   echo "checkJobArgs::SEQ: ", $typeof(exp)
+  var val = exp # evaluate once
   let expPtr = OpenArrayHolder[T](data: cast[ptr UncheckedArray[T]](unsafeAddr(val[0])), size: val.len())
   defer:
+    ## try and keep the value type
     discard val.len()
   expPtr
 
 template checkJobArgs*(exp: typed): auto =
-  static:
-    echo "checkJobArgs:: ", $typeof(exp)
+  # static:
+  #   echo "checkJobArgs:: ", $typeof(exp)
   exp
 
 macro submitMacro(tp: untyped, jobs: untyped, exp: untyped): untyped =
diff --git a/tests/tjobs.nim b/tests/tjobs.nim
index 5c336c5..392755f 100644
--- a/tests/tjobs.nim
+++ b/tests/tjobs.nim
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ proc addNums(jobResult: JobResult[float], a, b: float) =
 proc addNumsIncorrect(jobResult: JobResult[float], vals: openArray[float]): float =
   discard
 
+proc addNumValues(jobResult: JobResult[float], base: float, vals: OpenArrayHolder[float]) =
+  os.sleep(100)
+  var res = base
+  for x in vals.toOpenArray():
+    res += x
+  discard jobResult.queue.send((jobResult.id, res,))
+
 suite "async tests":
 
   var tp = Taskpool.new(num_threads = 2) # Default to the number of hardware threads.
@@ -34,8 +41,8 @@ suite "async tests":
 
     check res == 3.0
 
-  # asyncTest "test":
-  #   var jobs = newJobQueue[float](taskpool = tp)
-  #   let res = await jobs.submit(addNumValues([1.0, 2.0]))
-  #   check res == 3.0
+  asyncTest "testing arrays":
+    var jobs = newJobQueue[float](taskpool = tp)
+    let res = await jobs.submit(addNumValues(@[1.0, 2.0]))
+    check res == 3.0