blogger's glitch with embedding video

Today is the second day of my inability to embed a video clip in my blog post. I reported the problem to Google yesterday via the Send feedback feature of the Blogger's composing interface.

I tried 3 different methods from within the post's composer to no avail.

1) select a video clips of mine already uploaded to youtube

2) enter the URL of my video on youtube (From YouTube option)

3) upload a video from my computer (Upload option) - i just get this screen and nothing is being upload

Update 10:12 PST:
I posted a workaround this morning.