Verbs: habitual past (demo)

[Permaculture Credit Union] <sp>Philip:</sp> And Nora would sit in her office at her computer and I would sit in my office at my computer. And every once in a while we would shout a question to each other about, you know, 'Did you remember to do this?' or 'Should we have a – what did we used to call them? - brain storming sessions?' And then we would be writing notes and pretty soon we would be sending e-mail to each other from one office to another in the same house. … Nora would send e-mail to me and say 'Please print this.' That's all I would get. There would be a document because she didn't have a printer on her computer and I had a printer on mine. So I get this document that had come by e-mail and I would print it out and she would come in and pick up the hard copy. 
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[Permaculture Credit Union] <sp>Nora:</sp> We used to have board meetings. …some would last for three or four hours and it was just intense. <sp>Philip</sp>: I was trying to keep things down to an hour or two at the most. My philosophy was anything over an hour is no longer a meeting, it's a party. And whoever called the party should supply beer. But we never had anything to drink up there. Everything we had was bottled water. We would bring in bottled water by the case. And people would drink bottled water. I remember once in a while somebody would bring in cookies and that would sustain us through a lengthy meeting. 
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[Permaculture Credit Union] <sp>Philip:</sp> In SCEO, Nora used to go to these luncheons that the CEOs would have in Northern New Mexico and they would discuss different problems that they would have to deal with. And share problems with each other. And many of them were women.
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