I think Josh is right on about Isolepis cernua 'Fiber Optic Grass'. Santa Rosa Gardens says this "This sedge might do the trick in a perpetually wet or boggy area". Magnolia Nursery says "This is a plant that will do great near water or in moist soils". You can trim these grasses back, but I wouldn't cut them back too hard. Growing indoors is tricky since you need to keep moist , yet provide the light it requires. In zone 4, you aren't going to have much of a choice but to grow it as a houseplant in the winter. Make sure you don't have it sitting somewhere near a heat register or similar now that cold weather is upon you. That will dry it out very quickly and brown the foliage.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I just got back from a "scoping" trip to Home Depot. I did not see any solid core doors, but the hollow core ones I don't think would work, since I'd need to cut it down. I looked at the plywood and I guess something like that could work, but I didn't get anything yet. They also had particle board with a melamine coating for $20-something a sheet, but I'd need to do something with the edges. The plexiglass at HD was over $70 and kind of flimsy. At a local salvage store I stopped by on the way home, they had a piece of tabletop glass slightly bigger than I need. The guy offered it to me for $50. But it will over hang the base by a couple inches on each side. Does anyone know if it's possible to get a tempered glass tabletop cut down? Also, my dh is concerned that his optical mouse won't work on a glass top - does anyone know whether this is true?

So, in my continuing quest for answers on this, I called Waste King (Anaheim Manufacturing) who is supposed to be the one who has it. They weren't able to really help me a tremendous amount other than to put me in touch with the manufacturer of the fiber optic controller...who was incredibly kind and talked with me for a bit. The website for the direct manufacturer is fiberswitch.com According to Al (the gentleman I spoke with), their biggest sales are in the CA area and he said that the fabricators there are routinely drilling a 3/8" hole in the granite with a masonry bit to make a place for the fiber optic button. We discussed the possibility of cabinet mounting it also (fishing the fiber optic cord from under the sink, up through the wall, and mounting in the upper cabinet area) and he said that would be a possibility as long as we didn't have too tight of a radius turn - you have to have at least a 4" diameter area....so no right turns. As I understood it, he said that the tighter the turn, the more chance of the light degrading. That makes sense. So, at this point, I'm back to trying to talk with my fabricator to see what they might be able to do and if not them, then I'll possibly try Plan B (cabinet mounting).

Well the best is a discrete Dolby Atmos 7.2.4 surround sound system for example. DTS has an equivalent setup. Bars just don't cut it if discrete mutl-channel audio is also an option. Optical will provide you with Dolby Digital 2.0 to 5.1 which has been the audio standard dating back to DVDs. Better quality and more channel audio can be had over HDMI cables but TVs are not going to have the best decoders in them to take advantage-- a separate AVR or even a separate AV processor will.