According to this information, I should be able to attach to geth with the following command on my OSX machine:

geth attach ipc://somePath/geth.ipc

in consideration of what to do about that "somePath", I attempted to follow the advice here, and use:

~/Library/Ethereum/

However, when I run the command:

geth attach ipc:~/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc

I get the following error message:

Fatal: Unable to attach to remote geth: dial unix ~/Library/Ethereum/geth.ipc: connect: no such file or directory

Also tried

geth attach --ipcdisable

which resulted in this:

Ultimately what I'd like to do is connect to the geth console without it spewing out a bunch of text so that I can examine the account balance of my address for my testnet mining, like I was asking about here.