Thank you so much for playing and for the feedback! The almanac needs a little love - this is actually version 2, haha. Third time will be a charm I think!
As for the speed changing on you, I think you're right! It was made to reset because we found that lots of new players had changed the speed in the tutorial and then didn't realize what they had done. I think that since we've added some visual feedback to the speed changes, that might be less important now - I'll turn off that feature on the next update and see how it goes!
Thank you again!