I work as a Computer Operator.
The short of it is like this, our company has large computer systems that do data processing 24/7. Occasionally these machines need service. That is always done Sunday mornings at midnight on my shift.
I have been doing this for a number of years.
If I know nothing else I know this. When the downtime is happening and the HP administrator turns to the HP tech and says, 'Wow this is going well. I thought for sure we would be here for 7 hours. We will have this done in 2. Good work.'. All Hell breaks loose. Nothing good EVER comes after those words. I have yelled at everyone that works with me for saying that. It is a curse and it is real.
Case in point, I wish to point out to you that Sony was congratulating themselves on a smooth MMORPG launch on the EQ2 launchpad.
I saw that and I knew it was trouble.