Hey Craig, I'm new here too, and also a sorta Texan. (Austin parttime, soon to be fulltime). If I buy one of these I'm planning on using it as much as I can- to get to the University, to go tooling in Hill Country and just engaging in overall mayhem!
I've owned quite a few 'impractical' cars that i drove close to daily, at least in good weather. Where in Tx are you?