Piano addict

Posted on March 26, 2008
Tags: Living |

There’s a piano nutter who moved in right above me. How do I know? Well being a nutter myself (in other areas) it’s easy to recognize one ;-) As you know I’m trading the US markets from Bangkok which means I have an odd schedule of “working” from about 8:30pm till around 4am and then sleep till about 10 or 11am. As a side note, actually a lot of the work happens during the off market hours and after the market opens it’s mostly just executing and trying to remain mentally sane.

Anyways, I noticed several times recently that at 3am someone living above me starts practicing on their piano! But aside from the odd hour to do this sort of noisy activity, they’re now going at it again since 8am in the morning. Clearly, this person is at least a serious hobbyist. I wish I could tell from the quality of playing how serious, but I can’t.

Typically I don’t care about it at night or hear it in the morning but I’m now sick with a nasty flu and I didn’t trade last night so my normal schedule is a bit off and I’m easily annoyed by such things. I thought about walking up last night at 1am (s/he started early) to find out where it’s coming from and knock on the door but I was too crook. Hopefully when I get better I will continue to not care about it.

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5 Responses to “Piano addict”

Andrew on March 27th, 2008 4:56 am

Ahh the joys of the night shift :)

Markets close at 6am for me, so I’m getting to bed anywhere around 6-7 am. I live in a peaceful street but sometimes the neighbours have their grand children over or the kids walking to school at the end of their road are very noisy.

I find sleeping with a fan on is great for me, sort of knocks out a lot of the noise concerns.
eyal on March 27th, 2008 8:26 am

Yeah, the pleasures of Southern hemisphere trading. I used to have a wacky schedule when I lived in Kiwiland. I had a day job so I had to split my sleeping into 2 parts, 3 hours in the early evening after work, then wake up at 8am EST, followed by another 3 hours sleep in afternoon of EST and then off to work. I followed the model of sentry duty from my time in the military. It worked reasonably well except I had almost no social life or free time. I still find this schedule really tough on social life.

I don’t think there are any fans in Wellington :-) but I did have an electric heater plugged to the wall via a timer that would turn on and off the heating for me in the study and bedroom.
oonr7 on March 27th, 2008 12:44 pm

just do like the cartoons and take a saw to your ceiling and cut around the piano till it falls through. Clean up is a bitch… but that’s the price of peace and quiet.
eyal on March 28th, 2008 12:26 am

oonr7 - I think I would have followed your suggestion last night if I wasn’t so knocked out by this virus. The other alternative is obtaining a dual barrel shotgun and a No Piano Playing at Night sign and going upstairs to wait for it to start again :-)
oonr7 on March 28th, 2008 4:11 am

Yosemite Sam style… like it. Don’t forget to don the mustache and hat.