diff --git a/hammond-cli/src/main.rs b/hammond-cli/src/main.rs
index 5a3646b..20c77b6 100644
--- a/hammond-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/hammond-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ struct Opt {
 fn run() -> Result<()> {
     let args = Opt::from_args();
 
-    loggerv::init_with_verbosity(args.verbosity).unwrap();
+    loggerv::init_with_verbosity(args.verbosity)?;
 
     hammond_data::init()?;
 
diff --git a/hammond-data/Cargo.toml b/hammond-data/Cargo.toml
index c01bd38..246f02b 100644
--- a/hammond-data/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hammond-data/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ hyper = "0.11.2"
 reqwest = "0.7.3"
 error-chain = "0.11.0"
 log = "0.3.8"
-loggerv = "0.3.0"
-diesel = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite", "deprecated-time", "chrono"] }
+diesel = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
 diesel_codegen = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
 xdg = "2.1.0"
 lazy_static = "0.2.8"
-rss = { version = "1.1.0", features = ["from_url"]}
+rss = "1.1.0"
+# overwrite diesel dependancy that disables a feature rss depends upon
 dotenv = "*"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/hammond-data/src/errors.rs b/hammond-data/src/errors.rs
index f892d2b..4c3f2ca 100644
--- a/hammond-data/src/errors.rs
+++ b/hammond-data/src/errors.rs
@@ -3,11 +3,13 @@ use diesel::result;
 use rss;
 use hyper;
 use reqwest;
+use log;
 
 use std::io;
 
 error_chain! {
     foreign_links {
+        LogError(log::SetLoggerError);
         MigrationError(RunMigrationsError);
         DieselResultError(result::Error);
         RSSError(rss::Error);
diff --git a/hammond-data/src/lib.rs b/hammond-data/src/lib.rs
index b7ab700..8a633b4 100644
--- a/hammond-data/src/lib.rs
+++ b/hammond-data/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ extern crate lazy_static;
 
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate log;
-extern crate loggerv;
 
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate diesel;
diff --git a/hammond-downloader/Cargo.toml b/hammond-downloader/Cargo.toml
index c63d5d4..0c95f69 100644
--- a/hammond-downloader/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hammond-downloader/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,10 +7,8 @@ authors = ["Jordan Petridis <jordanpetridis@protonmail.com>"]
 hammond-data = {path = "../hammond-data"}
 error-chain = "0.11.0"
 log = "0.3.8"
-loggerv = "0.3.0"
 reqwest = "0.7.3"
 hyper = "0.11.2"
 diesel = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
-diesel_codegen = { version = "0.16.0", features = ["sqlite"] }
 rss = { version = "1.1.0", features = ["from_url"]}
 dotenv = "*"