Thick as a brick

I watched a TV program on how to make bricks. Bricks are a sturdy building material.  Bricks are to shelter as enamel is to a tooth.  There is no such thing as a good analogy.  Anyway, turns out, all you need to make bricks is 1) brick dough 2) a smoosher and 3) an oven.  I feel both empowered and sad.  Empowered with my new brick making knowledge and saddened with the realization of just how much time up until now that I have wasted on NOT making bricks. Like now.