diff --git a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
index 201a5f3..df83117 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
@@ -70,8 +70,3 @@ macro submitMacro*(tp: untyped, jobs: untyped, exp: untyped): untyped =
 template submit*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T], exp: untyped): Future[T] =
   submitMacro(T, jobs, exp)
 
-template jobWrapper*(task: untyped) =
-  template `task Wrapper`*(jobResult: JobResult[float], args: varargs[untyped]) =
-    let res = unpackVarargs(`task`, args)
-    discard jobResult.queue.send((jobResult.id, res,))
-
diff --git a/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim b/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim
index 2f45207..7133c27 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ proc identPub*(name: string): NimNode =
 
 proc procIdentAppend*(id: NimNode, name: string): NimNode =
   if id.kind == nnkPostfix:
-    echo "PROC ID: ", id.treeRepr
     result = id
     result[1] = ident(result[1].strVal & name)
   else:
diff --git a/src/apatheia/tasks.nim b/src/apatheia/tasks.nim
index 601cfd2..5c84d91 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/tasks.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/tasks.nim
@@ -3,10 +3,16 @@ import std/[macros, strutils]
 
 import macroutils
 
-template checkParamType(obj: object) =
+import jobs
+export jobs
+
+template checkParamType*(obj: object): auto =
   for name, field in obj.fieldPairs():
     echo "field name: ", name
+  obj
 
+template checkParamType*(obj: typed): auto =
+  obj
 
 macro asyncTask*(p: untyped): untyped =
 
@@ -21,10 +27,6 @@ macro asyncTask*(p: untyped): untyped =
   
   echo "\nASYNC_TASK: "
   echo "name: ", name
-  echo "hasReturnType: ", hasReturnType(params)
-  echo "getReturnType: ", params.getReturnType().treeRepr
-  echo "generics: ", genericParams.treeRepr
-  echo "params: \n", params.treeRepr
   # echo "ASYNC_TASK: call: \n", tcall.treeRepr
 
   var asyncBody = newStmtList()
@@ -50,33 +52,10 @@ type
 
 proc doHashes*(data: openArray[byte],
                opts: HashOptions) {.asyncTask.} =
-  # echo "args: ", args.len()
   discard
 
-proc doHashesRes*(data: openArray[byte],
-               opts: HashOptions): int {.asyncTask.} =
-  discard
-  # echo "args: ", args.len()
-  result = 10
-
-
-when false:
-  proc doHashesTask*(args: seq[Data]) =
-    discard
-
-  proc doHashes*(args: seq[Data]) {.async.} =
-    # setup signals ... etc
-    # memory stuffs
-    # create future
-    let argsPtr = addr args[0]
-    let argsLen = args.len()
-    GC_ref(args)
-
-    doHashes(toOpenArray(argsPtr, argsLen))
-    GC_unref(args)
-  
-
-  proc processHashes*(args: seq[Data]) {.async.} =
-    ## do some processing on another thread
-    let res = await doHashes(args)
+# proc doHashesRes*(data: openArray[byte],
+#                opts: HashOptions): int {.asyncTask.} =
+#   # echo "args: ", args.len()
+#   result = 10
 
diff --git a/tests/ttasks.nim b/tests/ttasks.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24909c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ttasks.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import std/os
+
+import chronos
+import chronos/threadsync
+import chronos/unittest2/asynctests
+import taskpools
+
+import apatheia/queues
+import apatheia/tasks
+
+## todo: setup basic async + threadsignal + taskpools example here
+## 
+
+proc addNums(a, b: float): float {.asyncTask.} =
+  os.sleep(500)
+  echo "adding: ", a, " + ", b
+  return a + b
+
+# proc addNums(jobResult: JobResult[float], a, b: float) =
+#   let res = addNumsRaw(a, b)
+#   discard jobResult.queue.send((jobResult.id, res,))
+
+# suite "async tests":
+#   var tp = Taskpool.new(num_threads = 2) # Default to the number of hardware threads.
+#   asyncTest "test":
+#     var jobs = newJobQueue[float](taskpool = tp)
+#     echo "\nstart"
+#     let res = await jobs.submit(addNums(1.0, 2.0,))
+#     echo "result: ", res.repr
+#     check true