need some help before i drive this car off a cliff.

I bought one of those one man brake bleeders and it didn't work for crap. I finally remembered how I did it in the old days. I got some wood, cut to different links, opened up one of the drum brake bleeders, slowly push down brakes - do not let up - install wood between brake pedal and steering wheel to keep pedal down, tighten up bleeder, slowly take wood off of pedal - repeat 4 times or so on each wheel. Don't forget to keep fluid level up in master cylinder and cap on when you press of brake pedal