Like many in the accursed technology realms, I am doomed to releasing my software over the weekend (it's business-oriented, so the greatest drop in usage is over the weekend, hence ideal time to release).

So generally I spend Saturday doing an end-to-end test in our pre-prod environment to make sure everything looks fine, and then I tell capistrano to do the release, and then I go and perform such standard human activities as spending time with my girlfriend or doing a little bit of sport.