I have been using WLW for over five years.  Now suddenly I have trouble publishing every time I try to publish a new post.  It takes forever and then finally returns an error message saying "Cannot Post: operation timed out."  I have tried posting a draft to blogger, but that doesn't work either.  Initially when I had this problem I deleted and reinstalled WLW and that worked for a bit.  Then I continued to have problems.  Usually I force the program to close, restart it, and it will publish immediately.  Now that is not working either.  I have rebooted my computer as well.  Any suggestions?

I am running Windows 7, Windows Essentials/Live Writer 2012, publishing to Blogger.