diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index c579f7e..7936fdc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
         python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     steps:
-      - name: 🥡 Checkout code
+      - name: 🫙 Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0 # checkout tags (which is not done by default)
@@ -39,10 +39,8 @@ jobs:
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
           python -m pip install -e  ".[test]"
-      - name: Test with pytest
-        run: pytest pangeo_forge_esgf/tests
       - name: 🏄‍♂️ Run Tests
         shell: bash -l {0}
         run: |
-          py.test tests -v 
+          py.test pangeo_forge_esgf/tests -v 
 
diff --git a/pangeo_forge_esgf/parsing.py b/pangeo_forge_esgf/parsing.py
index 34e9042..af1cb45 100644
--- a/pangeo_forge_esgf/parsing.py
+++ b/pangeo_forge_esgf/parsing.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import requests
+from typing import Optional
 
 from .utils import facets_from_iid
 
@@ -23,7 +24,10 @@ def instance_ids_from_request(json_dict):
     return uniqe_iids
 
 
-def parse_instance_ids(iid: str) -> list[str]:
+def parse_instance_ids(
+    iid: str,
+    search_node:Optional[str] = None
+) -> list[str]:
     """Parse an instance id with wildcards"""
     facets = facets_from_iid(iid)
     # convert string to list if square brackets are found
@@ -39,13 +43,13 @@ def parse_instance_ids(iid: str) -> list[str]:
         facets[k] = v
     facets_filtered = {k: v for k, v in facets.items() if v != "*"}
 
-    # TODO: I should make the node url a keyword argument.
-    # For now this works well enough
-    url = "https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/esg-search/search"
-    # url = "https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/esg-search/search"
+    if search_node is None:
+        # search_node = "https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/esg-search/search"
+        search_node = "https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/esg-search/search"
+        #FIXME: I got some really weird flakyness with the LLNL node. This is a dumb way to test this...
     # TODO: how do I iterate over this more efficiently?
     # Maybe we do not want to allow more than x files parsed?
-    resp = request_from_facets(url, **facets_filtered)
+    resp = request_from_facets(search_node, **facets_filtered)
     if resp.status_code != 200:
         print(f"Request [{resp.url}] failed with {resp.status_code}")
         return resp
diff --git a/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_logging.py b/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_logging.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4f0a1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_logging.py
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+"""Not sure if this is working but I want to somehow test that logging is active and working as expected."""
+from pangeo_forge_esgf import setup_logging
+
+def test_setup_logging_smoketest():
+    setup_logging(level="DEBUG")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_recipe_inputs.py b/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_recipe_inputs.py
index bd8ce4a..90e70b7 100644
--- a/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_recipe_inputs.py
+++ b/pangeo_forge_esgf/tests/test_recipe_inputs.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import pytest
-from pangeo_forge_esgf.recipe_inputs import sort_urls_by_time, get_unique_filenames, filter_urls_first, filter_urls_preferred_node
+from pangeo_forge_esgf.recipe_inputs import sort_urls_by_time, get_unique_filenames, filter_urls_first
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
@@ -74,19 +74,3 @@ def test_filter_first_file_urls():
         for ii in range(2):
             assert filtered[i][ii] == expected[i][ii]
 
-# def test_filter_urls_preferred_node():
-#     unfiltered = [
-#         ('some.iid.you.like|some.filename.pattern', ['urlb', 'url2']),
-#         ('some.iid.you.like|some.other_filename.pattern', ['url2', 'urla', 'urlb']),
-#         ('some.other_iid.you.like|some.filename.pattern', ['urlc']),
-#         ('some.other_iid.you.like|some.other_filename.pattern', ['urlb', 'urla']),
-#         ]
-#     expected = [
-#         ('some.iid.you.like|some.filename.pattern', 'url2'),
-#         ('some.iid.you.like|some.other_filename.pattern', 'urla'),
-#         ('some.other_iid.you.like|some.filename.pattern', 'urlc'),
-#          ('some.other_iid.you.like|some.other_filename.pattern', 'urla'),
-#         ]
-#     filtered = filter_urls_preferred_node(unfiltered, preferred_file=['urla', 'url2'])
-#     pass
-