Seriously? Maintenance on Christmas Eve?

[Calyanare]

I think the more sad fact isn't that there is maintanence on christmas, but that it means that a lot of people at SE are working on the holidays. Seriously, yoshi needs to sleep some time man! I swear, if you look at a before and after comparison of when he just got the job, and now. you can see the bags in his eyes growing and him just looking utterly destroyed.

Christmas in Japan is actually celebrated somewhat like Valentine's Day is here: it's a big date night (i.e., not a "real" holiday, nobody gets time off work). They don't have any tradition of spending it with family and friends the way people in Western culture do (they do that sort of thing for New Year's, so my bet is that they're getting the maintenance out of the way in anticipation of time off for their real holiday).