I'm on a production deploy death march today. boredom interspersed with the next crisis and back to boredom until the next crisis. it will get worse as the day goes on
I feel your pain. We have a RTP this weekend and have some yucky perf stuff going on. Fortunately, for once, the fact that our Stage is so far off from our Prod worked in our favor. We refreshed the SQL procs and things improved in stage and everyone took a breath. Of course, we'll see what else comes up this weekend.
Good luck on your deployment. Don't kill anyone and you can consider it a raging success
I'll eat a hotdog for you. I'm a friend like that.