When we moved to Marin from San Francisco, one of my early annoyances was constantly missing Stargate SG1 on the Sci-Fi channel Friday night. (When we stayed home of course. I mean we go out. Sometimes. Okay, not often. But hey, we’re married. Dinner and a movie are cheaper at home.)

I did some cursory troubleshooting to see if I was missing it by an hour (i.e Central Time Zone), but no. I was always very late. It wasn’t a big deal as Season 7 had Daniel’s replacement (who just wasn’t the same), and the story lines were somehow lacking. Daniel has since returned and since I haven’t been watching I have no idea how or why that happened nor what happened to his replacement. Anyway, I let it go figuring I’d figure it out with the reruns.

Then, at the beginning of this month, Tripping the Rift, started on Sci-Fi. I had seen the short demo version a couple years back and was interested in seeing a real show. The Sci-Fi channel said Thursday 10:30 pm, which makes sense, its pretty bawdy, but at 7:30pm it started. So once again I decided to find out what was going on. After visiting the Sci-Fi channels channel lineup, I realized they offer many different feeds (east coast, west coast, etc.) and I was obviously seeing the wrong one.

So I called Comcast twice, both times explaining the problem and I was assured a call back. Nada. I called again today and the operator told me there was no call history for the past month. Nice. I asked for a Supervisor. She took down my story and has assured me a call. We’ll see.

I’m pretty sure this is only happening in my little service area. But if any other Marinites are having this issue, let me know.