doesn't it always happen like this:YOU

Have a big show coming up,
Spend hours sorting and digitizing just the right designs to fit the occasion
spend even more time picking out all the articles and lining them up for an assembly line run because even though you had weeks to prepare you have waited until the last couple of days to start
and then "POP" what was that noise coming from inside your machine!!!
UGH!!!!
Repairman is only open wednesday thru friday and is over an hour away one way!!
I call hoping against hope that there might be something I can do, he is nice enough to walk me through a few things, none of which work and tells me the best case scenerio is $75.00 and a 2 days in the shop!!! That is the best that could happen, I just crawled inside the corner of my room and pouted for a hour or so.
I know most of you have been down this road before so I guess I just wanting to cry on some shoulders, Boo Hoo