I was thinking I could only select only the attributes from the database that have an option value since my 2nd attribute does not have a value and is only present to create another axis for the attribute grid.
......couldn't figure this out

I then thought that I could filter the attributes to retrieve only attributes where its option value id was NOT 110 or option id was NOT 20 as these are unique to this particular attribute. I am just not seeing this code where the attributes are retrieved from the the products_attributes table.

Any ideas oh wise Zenners?