Starting MP
You are welcome to join our MP group that plays on Wednesdays at 5:30 to 8:30 CST (GMT-6), which would be 6:30 to 9:30 EST (GMT-5) for you in Florida. Our current campaign is the Phyricc Victory thread. It is full, but drawing to a close. We'll probably be starting a new game in one or two weeks.
In any event, you could drop by metaserver at 6:15 or so just to practice joining a game. There might not be any countries to play as we are pretty far along and just about all the minors have been devoured.