There's a bug that when you listen to the conversation in the lumberjack house it doesn't progress time or skills.
I've heard this before and have been unable to reproduce - can you tell me more about your game state and what happened?
It was in 0.1.5c. First thing I did was head to the lumberyard, started the cursed tree scene. I waited till Simon walked off and went to the door. Imma see if i can sent a save file