Wouldn't you know!

I finally got numerous post from my archive moved over and go back into the old blog to look at deleting it and I get the message, "11:00 AM PDT: Your blog is currently being converted to a new-and-improved version of Blogger. Please bear with us. It should be back in a couple hours." That is fine. I imagine the conversions could very well be the source of all the slowness, etc...