testing the logging waters

[DocCaliban]

• Added a logMessage function that simplifies logging.
• Found what I think is a duplicate code block and I commented it out.
• streamlined some of the error messaging.
• I ran prettier against the code base to clean up some of the extra spaces, it made a whole lot of changes that are just code formatting. I hope this is ok, if not I can easily undo the changes, or re-run with some different options.