I have discovered a worm-hole in the space-time continuum. It is in my workshop. An important component pinged off the desk the other night, and it simply isn't on this planet any more, at least not in the current time zone. Should I report this to NASA?!
One other thing that I have now started doing, is looking in the last place that I would think of looking first. It don't work for lost bits but some times works for them bits that you put away thinking that they will come in handy one day.