So I Wnet back to try again. I booted the game fresh and went to my save games. Thing is I have 5 saved games and they all read Act 1 0 seconds. Earlier they had read Act 1 4 Hours, Act 1 7 hours, etc. I chose the most recent save based on the time of the save. It loaded fine and when I went to the journal everything was once again there. I went back to the load game screen and they all ahd the correct Act and hour information.
So everything seems fine now but I will keep an eye out and update should it happen again.