Am I psychic, or am I just getting better at thinking like a kid?

To wit: Two weeks ago I washed out a thermos of mine, and, because the plastic seal of the cap/spout still retained a plastic-y new smell. after the cleanup I put it and the metal thermos cap/cup out on the balcony to air out for a few days, setting them on a small platform. My balcony is on the fourth floor of the building I live in (which will probably give you an idea of where this story's going...)
Today, I remembered they were still out there, and went out to bring them in. It was about 1:45 in the afternoon. The spout cap was there (now on the floor of the balcony), but the cup lid was missing. The exterior of the thermos is a brushed-metal finish, and is one of the pricier styles of smaller thermoses... it's a good size, works well, and was a gift to me late last year. The cup lid is of the same metallic finish.
I looked over the edge of the balcony to the yard far below. The grass, just becoming revealed as the murky-looking snow has been receding the last few days, was part mud and part grass. Directly below me was the protruding edge of the concrete slab that was the "patio" of the ground floor apartment there. I know the tenant of that unit, and, after scanning from above the immediate yard area for a minute, looking for any glint of metal, went downstairs and asked Shauna if I could look around her patio area a moment or two.
Shauna, however, noted that her kids (and some neighbours' kids) had found the metal thermos cup just yesterday, and assumed it had simply been discarded. They played with it for several hours in the course of other activities and fun they were having. However, they were at school at the moment, and she had no idea where the cup might be at that moment.
I looked around the yard for a minute or two, and Shauna said she'd ask the kids where it might be after they got home from school. (It was now approaching 2pm). I said thanks, and that I'd just look around anyway for a few minutes.
I didn't really think I'd find it, but had a few minutes to indulge in a quick search and started drifting around the courtyard here. The rental complex I live in has five large buildings, each with almost a hundred or so units. There are courtyards in the backs, pathways between them, central parking lots, and connecting paths to nearby amenities such as pre-schools, a regular school to the north, and a couple other facilities. The buildings are assigned letter identifiers... A-block, B-block, C-block, etc. It gives a nice penitentiary-style feel to the place, I think. I live in the A-block.
After a quick trot around the immediate vicinity, I just thought I'd head out along a path that went eastward, past the pre-school and the complex's maintenance machine building. I continued eastward, past two of the nearby rental buildings and on out towards the fifth one, at the east periphery of the complex.
The E-block loomed a hundred yards away. I thought I'd just walk that far, then turn around and come back, all the while trying to visualize the roaming patterns of kids playing on a warm afternoon with no particular place to be. I imagined yesterday's weather, which was relatively warm for March. I let my mind "flow" into the random and scattered interests of what the kids might've been moving through as they played with their toys. I looked through the deserted open yard areas in all the places that a kid might be drawn to.
As I drew closer to the E-building, still about a hundred and fifty feet away, I saw a shiny glint reflecting from the soil at the corner of the building closest to me. I thought the shine was way too bright for a brushed-metal finish, and deliberately kept from getting my hopes up. However, as I continued along the path, approaching the building obliquely, the size of the shiny object seemed to be about the right size.
Finally, from about fifty feet away, I could see the cup shape, and noticed the shininess was no longer as intense as it appeared from further back. I walked right up to it, and there it was!
The cup was undamaged, but had a few minor, almost invisible scratches along one side. It was set into a dried mud patch of soil right at the brick building's corner, and was surrounded by three plastic lighters lying to the right of it... three differently coloured lighters, all partially set into the recently-dried mud. I picked up the cup, noted it was mostly relatively clean, and headed home, leaving the lighters where they lay.
On my way back into the building, I stopped at Shauna's, showed her the cup, and then advised that she might want to ask her kids what they were doing apparently playing with lighters, too. She was surprised, and said she'd definitely be asking them about that.
Later, back in the apartment, a couple good washings-out and the thermos cap/cup was ready to be rejoined with the rest of the unit. So, was I being psychic at finding a small metal cup amongst 3 acres of rental complex, or just good at thinking like a kid? Still?
Finally, though, I can only assume that letting two cats out onto the balcony every second day or so was probably primarily responsible for the original displacement of the thermos accessories. Cats. You just can't trust 'em.

Inertia

Someone once described inertia's effects as that of like trying to push a stalled stationary car. At first, there is resistance, and you work hard to push it and get it rolling. However, once the thing actually gets moving, keeping it moving is not a problem.
Same for the latest invention. I can imagine the anxiety of ski hill/resort owners who are facing ever-shorter skiing seasons approaching with increasing climate change. All their snow is vanishing earlier every year.
Yet, I've created this cool, fun, extreme-sport recreational device that does for summer recreation what snowboarding did for winter fun. Prototypes work, scale-ups are coming, the excitement is building, yet it is so #$%^&*! hard to get in touch with people who own ski facilities. I need to spend some time testing the product on actual hills, and all I encounter are middle managers who have little or no interest in far-reaching considerations of their resort's financial concerns.
Ten minutes with a few owners would show them how this re-designed invention could provide steady income throughout the rest of the year from the same adrenalin-junkies who love snowboarding, surfing, parasailing, skydiving, etc., whatever, in the name of extreme sport.
Best of all, the device costs no more than a fully outfitted pro ski package, so would be available to anyone with a serious interest.
THIS is the inertia phase.... trying to generate interest. Once it gets going, however, I expect this will snowball rapidly. That's the good news.